By Naseem Sheikh
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and fourth in Asia. Pakistan’s population has increased 5.6 times during the past 63 years, implying an average annual rate of growth of 2.77 per cent, one of the highest in the world. Continue reading
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By Severin Carrell
AVERTING the worst consequences of human-induced climate change is a “great moral issue” on a par with slavery, according to the leading Nasa climate scientist Prof Jim Hansen.
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Jose Maria Figueres
It was once said of the battle to fight climate change that there is no silver bullet – there is only silver buckshot. But, while political leaders have been loaded for bear when it comes to many industries, they have thus far been unable or unwilling to take aim at the impact of aviation.
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By Zahrah Nasir
At the tail end of the harshest winter in this region of the last 20 years, the issue of global warming appears farcical to the majority of the population –– if, that is, they even bother to consider the subject at all. Hard on the heels of a series of massive avalanches, out-rightly killing or burying alive at least 200 people in the Badakshan province of Afghanistan, warnings about the lack of winter snowfall leading to severe drought conditions are being taken with a pinch of salt. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
Cotton is considered the world’s ‘dirtiest’ crop due to its heavy use of insecticides, the most hazardous pesticide to human and animal health. Cotton covers 2.5% of the world’s cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world’s insecticides, more than any other single major crop.
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By Naseem Sheikh
Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semi synthetic organic amorphous solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular weight, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce costs.
Man-made plastic is called as Synthetic Plastics. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
Soot from diesel exhausts and the burning of wood, agricultural waste and dung for heating and cooking causes an estimated two million premature deaths a year, particularly in the poorest countries. Scientists say that concerted action on these substances can reduce global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 and prevent millions of cases of lung and heart disease by 2030. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semi synthetic organic amorphous solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
The escalating and inelastic demand for energy to fuel economic activities exerts pressures on its limited supply. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
In Pakistan, annual mean surface temperature has a consistent rising trend since the beginning of 20th century. Rise in mean temp. of 0.6-1.0°C in arid coastal areas, arid mountains and hyper arid plains, 10-15% decrease in both winter and summer rainfall in coastal belt and hyper arid plains, 18-32% increase in rainfall in monsoon zone especially the sub-humid and humid areas is observed. Continue reading
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