KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday emphasized on increased coordination among relevant departments in dealing with climate change impacts, saying Afghanistan needs ‘competitive international capital market’ for its self-sufficiency...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The European Union (EU) will provide Afghanistan 36 million in aid to help the impoverished nation deal with climate change – a task that needs $17 billion in ten years. Addressing a seminar “Dealing with Challenge of Climate Change...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) officials on Tuesday said traders continued to illegally import gases which harmed the natural environment. These views were expressed at a joint meeting between NEPA heads for...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul residents complain of increasing environmental and air pollution, saying different ailments are on the rise in the capital.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Expert believed that until environmental protection is not included in the political agenda no change could happen to control the growing pollution. Dr. Jamshid Rasa, one of the psychologists, told a gathering on Global...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Deserts of southwest Afghanistan have changed dramatically over the last two decades, says a study conducted by a local think-tank. The largely uninhabited land at the beginning of the 21st century became home to about 2.2 million...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Air pollution has reached harmful level in central capital Kabul, said National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) chief Shah Zaman Maiwandi on Tuesday.

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Five large barns are being constructed at a cost of $2 million in Wakhan district of northeastern Badakhshan province to protect household animals from snow leopards in winter, an official said Tuesday. Provincial Sectoral head,...

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): The mayor for northern Kunduz province on Sunday said some 550 new employees were being hired by the municipality for cleaning the capital city, Kunduz City. Najeebullah Omarkhail told Pajhwok Afghan News: “As part of the new...