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Cascading Hazards: Destabilizing slopes, dams and rivers

A fisherman checks his fishing nets at dawn; a shopkeeper opens his store’s shutter. It is just any other ordinary day for them. The...

Water Security After Floods: A Look Into Consequences, Remediation, and Mitigation

When floods hit, cameras capture the obvious: submerged homes, stranded families, broken roads. But after the water recedes, a slower and often more dangerous...

Glacial Grafting: An Indigenous Practice of Glacier Wedding

Pakistan is home to all kinds of weather. Our nation has been blessed with lush green mountains and far dry deserts. From lakes to...

When the Heat Becomes a Maternal Health Emergency: Protecting Mothers in a Warming Pakistan

I grew up in Hunza, where the landscape decides the details of daily life. The shape of the mountains dictates where water flows, when...

When The Sky Breaks: Cloudbursts Are Pakistan’s New Climate Threat

On the morning of 15th August 2025, the people of Buner District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan faced a disaster which they had never seen...

Water, Wheat and Want: Why COP31’s Food Security Agenda Matters for Pakistan

The water is gone now, but the damage is still here. The 2025 monsoon floods hit Punjab harder than any flood in the last...

Climate change linked to frequent landslides in Pakistan

This article was originally published in the Express Tribune. Researchers record 335 non-seismic landslides, damaging roads with rock, mud and ice during a period from...

Psychological Traumas Following Natural Disasters

When the ground stops shaking, and the rivers stop flooding, it doesn’t mean the fear is over. The terror of the incidents follows the...

Can a Chinese AI weather system help Pakistan manage the impacts of a changing climate?

This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND licence. The first time Muhammad Irfan Virk entered the China...

Zero Deaths, No Warning: Why Forecasts Alone Don’t Save Lives

In June 2023, a cyclone named Biparjoy churned toward Gujarat, on India's western coast, packing sustained winds strong enough to flatten huts and snap...

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