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A bus carrying 27 passengers fell into the Indus river in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 14 people, officials said. Twelve others are missing.

Whether intentional or not, the way mega-settlements in southeastern Europe from 6,000 years ago were laid out would have cut down on the spread of disease.

A 2023 astronaut photo provides a unique perspective of the Sulaiman Mountains in Pakistan, showing how thick clouds of haze get trapped behind the tall peaks.

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As the world threatens to breach a critical global warming threshold, cooperation still seems to fall short.

Pakistan is reforesting its river delta with mangrove forests nearly the size of Rhode Island. But why are some upset?

Large parts of the world, including China and the Midwest US, are on track to become too hot for humans to handle as accelerating global temperatures expose ...

Much of Asia seems to be riddled onto the Lord of the Rings map of Middle Earth.

Ancient writings like the Indus script and Voynich Manuscript have baffled scholars for decades. Some researchers think AI systems could help reveal their secrets.

India is moving towards fatal climatic conditions. This year saw the country's hottest February in 122 years, and it is only likely to get worse.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that just as the Pandavas could not choose their relatives, India cannot choose its geographical neighbours.

Collapse isn't inevitable. New research shows that nimble, cooperative societies adapted best to rapid shifts.

The World Meteorological Organization has published its first State of Global Water Resources report in order to assess the effects of climate, environmental and societal change on the Earth's water resources. The aim of this annual stocktake is to support monitoring and management of global freshwater resources in an era of growing demand and limited supplies.

Pakistan's Sindh province has a rich Hindu history and tradition – an outlier in the Muslim-majority country. Discrimination, however, is on the rise though the landscape of Pakistan, and Sindh in particular, retains a Hindu imprint.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations humanitarian agency is warning that about 5.7 million Pakistani flood survivors will face a serious food crisis in the next three months, as the death toll from the deluge rose on Monday.

After a deadly summer of torrential monsoon rains, floodwaters are finally beginning to recede in southern Pakistan's Singh province. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has promised to financially support those who lost crops and homes in the deluge.

In addition to the rainfall, a heat wave in India and Pakistan earlier this year, also fueled by climate change, worsened the flooding that left a third of Pakistan under water, scientists found.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Pakistan on Friday to show solidarity with the people of the country following the loss of life and destruction caused by this year's devastating floods. He appealed for massive international support to tackle this "climate catastrophe".

One-third of the country is under water, following an intense heat wave and a long monsoon that has dumped a record amount of rain

Authorities warn that more flooding is expected as Lake Manchar swells from unprecedented monsoon rains that have killed nearly 1,300 people.