Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai is using song to teach villagers about climate change.

Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai is using song to teach villagers about climate change.

Sham, 18, is no ordinary singer. She’s part of a growing wave of women using music - both traditional and modern - to sound the alarm on climate change in Pakistan’s most vulnerable regions.

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Pakistani musicians use folk songs and rap to raise climate change awareness Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai is using song to teach villagers about climate change.

My heart is burned from seeing the collapsed houses in the rain. Sham is from Sindh, the Pakistani province worst-hit three years ago by climate-worsened deluges that affected tens of millions of ...

UMERKOT, Pakistan (AP) — Villagers hush when Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai starts singing about climate change, her clear voice rising above the simple squat dwellings. “We are the people ...

Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai is using song to teach villagers about climate change. She is from Sindh, the province worst-hit three years ago by climate-worsened deluges that affected tens ...

But she has turned her attention to raising awareness about climate change since flooding devastated her village in 2022 and again in 2024. “We can engage a lot of audiences through rap.