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Low snow on the Himalayas threatens water security: study
AFP via Yahoo News UK· 3 weeks agoMillions of people dependent on Himalayan snowmelt for water face a "very serious" risk of shortages...
India heatwave: What is wet bulb temperature and how hot is too hot?
The Independent via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoIntense heat combined with humidity, which is what wet bulb temperature measures, poses a greater...
Pakistan heatwave: Hundreds treated for heatstroke as temperatures soar to over 50C
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoParts of Pakistan have been sweltering in more than 50 degrees Celsius with officials saying climate...
Revealed: the world's most populated cities
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe top 25 Aleksandr Ozerov/Shutterstock Since 2008 more than half the world’s population has lived in towns and cities. Urbanisation is continuing at a...
More aid needed in Pakistan affected by catastrophic floods, says UNHCR
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThe UN refugee agency is mobilising resources and staff to scale up its assistance in Pakistan to...
Pakistan breaches lake to help save city from flooding as death toll climbs to 1,300
The Independent via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoAuthorities in flood-hit Pakistan have breached the country’s largest freshwater lake, displacing...
'This is climate carnage': UN chief visits Pakistan's flood-ravaged provinces
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toured Pakistan's flood-ravaged Sindh and Baluchistan...
In Pakistan's Sindh province, Hindu culture fights the odds
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoOn the sandy banks of the Indus River, which flows top to toe through Pakistan and into its southern...
Framing disasters as natural masks societal inequalities, charity says
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoDescribing disasters as natural masks the systemic inequalities in access to resources and power,...
Pakistan floods: Rise in dengue and malaria cases has markings of ‘human catastrophe’
The Independent via Yahoo News UK· 2 years ago‘We are trying our best, but my biggest fear is that we’re sitting with the makings of a human...