Tag: #ClimateChnage
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Foreign Secy plants pine sapling at MoFA as part of nationwide plantation drive
ISLAMABAD, August 09 (APP): Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood on Sunday planted a sapling at Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) as part of the massive nationwide tree plantation drive. While planting a pine sapling at the lawns of the Ministry, the Foreign Secretary said plantation was important in mitigating effects of climate change besides helping the…
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Amazon fires ‘quicken Andean glacier melt’
Paris, Nov 28 (AFP/APP): Fires in the Amazon rainforest are likely to increase the rate of melting of Andean glaciers, potentially disrupting water supply for tens of millions of people, scientists said on Thursday. Images of smoke-filled horizons from blazes burning out of control across the Amazon basin made headlines around the world earlier this…