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Pakistan

‘Toxic Colonialism’ on the Bay of Bengal

Despite new international safety standards, the beaches of South Asia remain the destination for environmentally destructive and dangerous shipbreaking.

By Johnny Sturgeon

Local teenagers play soccer in front of the Sitakunda ship graveyard. Credit: Spencer Call/NGO Shipbreaking Platform.
The cooling towers and main unit of the Chinese–funded Sahiwal coal plant dominate the skyline above rural farmlands in Punjab, Pakistan. Credit: Aman Azhar/Inside Climate News

The Chinese Coal Offer Pakistan Couldn’t Afford But Didn’t Refuse

By Aman Azhar

People walk across a road amid dense smog in Lahore on Dec. 12. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

In Lahore’s Smog Season, This Gen Z Doctor Is Centering Climate Change

By Keerti Gopal

A man wades through floodwater on Oct. 18, 2022, in Johi, Pakistan. Nearly one-third of Pakistan was deeply affected by flooding which hit the country in 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors

By Dana Drugmand

Workers install solar panels at the Ningguoyun Lingwu 1 million kilowatt photovoltaic project in the desert of China’s northern Ningxia region on April 14. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030

By Kiley Bense

A child sits on the shoulders of a rescue worker, who is wading through the water near other people. The water is reaching the adults' upper thighs. Buildings rise on either side of them.

Climate Change-Driven Floods Continue to Displace Millions in Pakistan

By Keerti Gopal

A child pours water over himself to cool off during a heat wave at a cattle market in Karachi on May 31. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

Two Suns, One City: Karachi’s Dueling Realities in a Warming World

By Aman Azhar

People carry their belongings through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in Punjab, Pakistan on Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images

Invisible Deaths: As Climate Disasters Kill in Pakistan, the True Scale Is Unknown

By Keerti Gopal

Volunteers distribute cold drinks at a heat wave relief camp on May 31 in Lahore, Pakistan. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: As Temperatures in Pakistan Top 120 Degrees, There’s Nowhere to Run

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks with delegates after a joint press conference with the U.N. secretary general at the Pakistani pavilion at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh on Nov. 7, 2022. Credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images

Parties at COP27 Add Loss and Damage to the Agenda, But Won’t Discuss Which Countries Are Responsible or Who Should Pay

By Zoha Tunio

Rescue workers help evacuating flood affected people from their flood hit homes following heavy monsoon rains in Rajanpur district of Punjab province on Aug. 27, 2022. Credit: Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say Pakistan’s Extreme Rains Were Intensified by Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

Residents use a raft to move along a waterlogged street in a residential area after a heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad City on Aug. 19, 2022. Credit: Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images

In Pakistan, 33 Million People Have Been Displaced by Climate-Intensified Floods

By Zoha Tunio

In this picture taken on May 12, 2022, people drink water being distributed by volunteers along a street during a heatwave in Jacobabad, in the southern Sindh province. Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

In Jacobabad, One of the Hottest Cities on the Planet, a Heat Wave Is Pushing the Limits of Human Livability

By Zoha Tunio

A man throws water on his face to cool off as the temperature exceeds 46 degrees in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 27, 2022. Temperatures above the seasonal norm have adversely affected daily life in Pakistan. Credit: Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk

By Zoha Tunio

Commuters struggle to move forward in a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sept. 23, 2021. Credit: Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Activists Take Aim at an Expressway Project in Karachi, Saying it Will Only Heighten Climate Threats

By Zoha Tunio

Reforestation Taking Root in Projects Around the World

By Leslie Berliant

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