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Environmental issues in Pakistan include air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, climate change, pesticide misuse, soil erosion, natural disasters, desertification and flooding. According to the 2020 edition of the environmental performance index (EPI) ranking released by Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Pakistan ranks 142 ...
Climate change in Pakistan is a major issue for the country. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change. As with the changing climate in South Asia as a whole, the climate of Pakistan has changed over the past several decades, with significant impacts on the environment and people. [1] In addition to increased heat, drought and extreme ...
A study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimated that Road accidents in Pakistan resulted in $5.4 billion in losses in 2015 alone. [15] According to a 2018 report of Ministry of Communications, Pakistan incurs an annual loss of approximately $9 billion due to road traffic accidents. [16]
From 15 June to October 2022, floods in Pakistan killed 1,739 people, [3] and caused ₨ 3.2 trillion ($14.8 billion) of damage and ₨ 3.3 trillion ($15.2 billion) of economic losses. [4] The immediate causes of the floods were heavier than usual monsoon rains and melting glaciers [5] that followed a severe heat wave, both of which are linked ...
Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...
More than 33 million people in Pakistan are struggling to deal with a monsoon season supercharged by climate change. Photos: Pakistan floods a ‘climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic ...
Event Disaster Location Date Affected Death Toll; Earthquake/Tsunami: Makran: 325 BC: 1935 Quetta earthquake: Earthquake: Quetta: May 31, 1935: 60,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake
Pakistan lies in the temperate zone. The climate is generally arid, characterized by the extreme southwestern part of the country where Gwadar and Karachi are the main port cities. Though cyclones are rare in the Arabian sea which a part of North Indian Ocean, cyclones that form in this sea mostly move towards Western India rather than Pakistan ...