Category: Environment Guru
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July 3 Was Hottest Day Ever Globally
July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world. The southern U.S. has been suffering under an intense heat dome…
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Mount Everest is losing snow and turning ‘dry and rocky’
Mount Everest is losing snow and turning “dry and rocky”, British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears…
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China Buying 1 Lakh Endangered Monkeys For Experiments From Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has confirmed China’s request for importing 1,00,000 endangered monkeys from the cash-strapped island nation, amidst protests from environmental groups against the deal. Gunadasa Samarasinghe, the top bureaucrat in Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Agriculture said that a privately-owned Chinese company connected to Zoological Gardens which are animal breeders had made the request to his…
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Himalayas lost glaciers equal to weight of 570 million elephants in 20 years
Researchers have for the first time documented the mass loss of glaciers in the Himalayas that had remained invisible as it was happening below the surface of the glacier. The glaciers have lost enough mass equal to around 570 million elephants put together. The lake-terminating glaciers have been underestimated due to the inability of satellites…
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First Tulip Garden bring smiles to the faces of tourists
India: As the Tulips bloom in the first Tulip garden of Himachal Pradesh (HP) at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur it is expected to attract a record-breaking number of tourists. In less than two weeks of its opening over 40000 people have already visited the…
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Fifth meeting of Punjab Environmental Protection Council held
Lahore: The fifth meeting of the Punjab Environmental Protection Council was held in the Committee Room of the Civil Secretariat under the chairmanship of Provincial Minister for Environmental Protection Muhammad Rizwan. The chair reviewed introduction of the members of the council and the implementation of the decisions taken in the previous meeting of the…
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LHC directs PEMRA to run Smog Awareness Campaign on TV channels
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to launch an awareness campaign regarding smog on television (TV) channels. According to details, a petition was heard in the LHC against the non-implementation from the city authorities to curb smog in the provincial capital of Punjab. In this regard, the court…
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APAEA warns ACs to halt operation against tyre recycling units
Lahore: All Pakistan Alternative Energy Association (APAEA) Chairman Azeem Kasuri has said that members of the association are obeying the SOPs issued by the government but the ACs across Punjab especially Sheikhupur are bulldozing the industry outlets rendering millions unemployed. He along with the association’s members in a press conference Tuesday, said, “We are…
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Schools in Indian capital shut indefinitely as smog worsens
Residents urged to work from home and trucks carrying non-essential goods banned as New Delhi’s air pollution hits dangerous levels
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World reacts to COP26 global climate pact
Mixed reactions to Glasgow Climate Pact as UN, US, China welcome deal and activists denounce more babble from two weeks of talks