Asia · Southern Asia
5 projects · 5 organizations
A citizen-scientist network put Pakistan's invisible smog on the map, one low-cost monitor at a time.
After Karachi's deadly 2015 heatwave, one engineer began planting dense Miyawaki forests to cool Pakistan's biggest city.
Yasmeen Lari stopped designing landmark buildings at seventy and started teaching flood survivors to build their own shelters out of bamboo, lime and mud — for about forty dollars each.
A Pakistan-founded NGO builds predator-proof livestock corrals and community insurance schemes across Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral so herders stop losing snow leopards to retaliatory killing.
Coastal communities and WWF-Pakistan have replanted tens of thousands of hectares of mangroves that shield the Indus Delta from cyclones and rising seas.