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Villagers with their belongings cross a flooded area on a boat, in Dadu, a district of southern Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2022. The devastation wreaked by floods in Pakistan this summer has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Do rich countries whose emissions are the main cause of climate change owe compensation to poor countries hit by climate change-fueled disasters? (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Drive For Climate Compensation Grows After Pakistan’s Floods

Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she used…

AP 10 October 2022
Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains attend school at a flood relief camp in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed over a 1000 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

3 Million Children May Miss a Semester in Flood-hit Pakistan

Almost 3 million children in Pakistan may miss at least one semester because of flood damage to schools, officials said Thursday, following heavy monsoon rains likely worsened by climate change. …

AP 29 September 2022
A patient suffering from dengue fever sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue and malaria ward at the Sindh Government Services Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Malaria and Diseases Spreading Fast in Flood-Hit Pakistan

The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan's flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she…

22 September 2022
The Caldor fire is reflected off of Caples Lake near the Kirkwood ski resort Wednesday, September 1, 2021 in Lake Tahoe, California. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Our Fire and Flood Summer Predicts a Catastrophic Future

Journalist Ginia Bellafante hit the nail on the headwhen she tweeted that the overused phrase “historic weather event” must be retired. “It gives the ongoing climate catastrophe the hint of…

Virginia Heffernan 04 September 2021
Illustration by Ali Mandalawi

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Campaigner Challenging World Leaders

This summer is witnessing many fires and floods that strike many countries around the globe, and the intense heatwave, which scientists describe as “the most observed heatwave on the planet”, has…

Majalla 06 August 2021
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