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Carbon & Climate

How climate change reshaped the wild in 2025

Around the world, rising temperatures and erratic weather are forcing animals to adapt in startling ways – with consequences for people and ecosystems alike.
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Manufacturing

Passport for fashion aims to end industry greenwashing

Passport for textiles could verify green claims as global fashion seeks to reduce its environmental footprint.
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Carbon & Climate

The world is closer than ever to climate tipping points, but better investments can change that: UNEP

The latest Global Environment Outlook report emphasised the need to invest against the trillion-dollar losses from climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. This includes overhauling fossil fuel subsidies and pricing in pollution.
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Cities

Rise in mild Karachi earthquakes prompts calls for disaster preparedness

The city’s building codes need enforcing, and the groundwater extraction that destabilises buildings needs controlling, say experts.

All South Asia News

4 December 2025

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Cities

Deadly floods affect millions across South and Southeast Asia, leaving over $4 billion in loss and damage

3 December 2025

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Food & Agriculture

Climate disasters deepen food insecurity in the Punjab

25 November 2025

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Energy

The hidden economic toll of thermal power plant shutdowns

23 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Global climate talks end with adaptation disagreements and no fossil fuel pledge

19 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Down to the wire: COP30 negotiators labour over adaptation finance

10 November 2025

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Carbon & Climate

‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025

3 November 2025

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Energy

Rooftop solar booms in Pakistan. How can neighbours catch up?

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Manufacturing

Fashion brands help textile suppliers boost solar power

2 November 2025

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Water

Can Pakistan reverse its dismal record on ocean protection?

28 October 2025

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Cities

Street vendors are struggling with rising temperatures

27 October 2025

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Waste

US e-waste exports to Asia may exceed US$1 billion, new report finds

24 October 2025

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Cities

Life in the Sundarbans, on the front line of climate change

8 October 2025

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Energy

Pakistan must shape its clean energy future

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Food & Agriculture

No route home: Climate change threatens Kashmir’s nomadic traditions

26 September 2025

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Policy & Finance

Could a Global South movement boost gender-responsive investments amid DEI retreat?

25 September 2025

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Carbon & Climate

Q&A: ‘Pakistan will have to adapt to floods as the new normal’

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