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 Environmental Protection Week that…
KABUL, saying four tons of plastic bags were used on a daily basis in capital Kabul alone. Ghulam Mohammad Malakyar, deputy environment protection head, while marking World Environment Day, warned about dangerous impacts of plastic pollution on the environment. He…
KABUL 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 people in 2016, said the Afghanistan…
The High Commission on Prevention of Environmental Pollution has expressed its concern about increasing air pollution in Kabul City and demanded practical steps in this regard. The commission members briefed a meeting presided over by Chief Executive Officer…
Air pollution has reached harmful level in central capital Kabul, said National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) chief Shah Zaman Maiwandi on Tuesday. Addressing a conference titled ‘Health, Maiwandi likened air pollution to “a silent enemy” which was very…
A spring tree plantation campaign has got underway in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Monday. Ghulam Mohammad Mullahkhel, in charge of the horticulture process in the northern zone, told Pajhwok Afghan News around 120,000 saplings would…
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, Osama Basir, told…
National Environmental Protection Agency head Shah Zaman Maiwandi on Sunday said air pollution had turned catastrophic in Kabul City. Appearing before a Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament panel, the EPA chief said preventing pollution wasn’t responsibility…
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…
The Capital Zone Development Authority has said ten kilometers of new roads will be built and people whose houses are being demolished as part of the ‘Kabul Green Zone plan’ will be provided new homes. Ilham Omar Hotaki,…
Residents of northern Baghlan province say the provincial municipality is trying to convert the only recreational park in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, into a commercial area. Bagh-i-Qahwa Khana Parkis, the only recreational park and green area in Pul-i-Khumri…
A fire in the Noorgram district of eastern Nuristan province has gutted a three kilometers forest of pine nuts, officials said on Thursday. Noorgram district chief Naimatullah Muslim told Pajhwok Afghan News the blaze erupted in Malika and…
A two-year ‘green and clean city’ program was launched on Wednesday in the capital city of southern Kandahar province. Governor Zalmai Weesa, Mayor Eng. Rokhan Walasmal, municipal districts representatives and other officials attended the program’s inauguration ceremony…
Hunting of endangered wild animals and birds has lately gained momentum in southern Ghazni province, the provincial environment protection director said on Tuesday. Shabir Ahmad Ahmadyar told Pajhwok Afghan News that poachers were merciless in hunting rarely…
The groundwater level has gone down by 15 meters as a result of illegal digging of deep wells in southern Kandahar province, local officials said on Tuesday. Mohammad Nader Kakar, water supply and canalsation director, told Pajhwok…
KABUL Protection Authority (EPA) says 70 percent of recreational and agricultural areas have been converted into residential buildings and commercial plazas in major cities of the country. As a result, oxygen sources would be dangerously depleted in the next four…
The mayor of southern Kandahar City has been awarded membership of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM), an official said on Tuesday. GPM works for capacity building of mayors and makes strategies and policies for cities’ development. Kandahar…
After months of dry weather, most provinces of the country, including Kabul, received rain and snowfall on Tuesday. The wet spell is expected to continue over the next couple of days. Plain areas were lashed by rains and…
Experts say the lowering underground water level and water pollution in capital Kabul city is ‘worrying and catastrophic’ and ask the government to take serious steps towards resolving the issue. They expressed the remarks on Thursday at an…
The chief executive officer (CEO) on Monday asked all government agencies and NGO should take part in cleaning the cityand called people’s support in this process as requisite condition. The 10-day campaign for cleaning Kabulstarted on Monday from…
An overnight campaign for washing roads and streets in the capital of eastern Nangarhar provinces has been launched, the governor’s office said on Wednesday. The cleanliness drive was being conducted by Khogyani Academic and Development Foundation with technical…
Participants of a three-day conference on sanitation on Tuesday said 42 percent of Afghans lacked access to clean drinking water and 19 percent to public toilets. ‘The First Sanitation Conference in Afghanistan and nongovernmental organs. Speaking on the…
Tonight’s supermoon -- visibly larger by 15 percent and brighter by 16 percent compared to the ordinary full moon -- will be closest to Earth in seven decades, America’s space agency says. The supermoon, poised to occur…
A week-long campaign against growing air pollution got under way in the capital of western Herat province on Thursday. The campaign had been jointly organised by the Environment. During the week, Environment Department head Nasir Ahmad Fazli…
