Tag: #Environment
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Global Warming and Climate Change: a Myth or Reality?
This opinion article is by Ihsan Chaudhry. “When you get up above it, what you see is, it’s actually incredibly thin. It’s this tiny, little fragile thing, and as we move about the planet, we’re damaging it. That’s very profound — it’s one thing to recognize that intellectually. It’s another thing to actually see with…
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Environment friendly Pakistan will increase GDP of country: Minister
LAHORE: Punjab Agriculture Minister Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi has said that Pakistan will become an environmentally friendly country. He expressed these views while talking after planting saplings at Multan-Taskhar Motorway Interchange Sher Shah under the tree planting campaign. The provincial minister said that every possible implementation of clean and green program was being done…
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Global warming is exacerbating the drought…
The United Nations (UN) has warned that rapid climate change is causing a dramatic intensification of global drought tragedies, which could affect agricultural production, global drinking water reserves and other unavoidable aspects of human development. According to the details, a special report has been revealed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) by…
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Punjab Government Allocates Rs 4 billion for Environment, Agriculture and Wildlife Sectors
During Punjab Assembly session, Provincial Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht said in his budget speech that provincial government has allocated Rs 4 billion for tree plantation to control the rising graph of pollution resulting in serious health hazards for the people. He explained that Rs 2.56 billion would be spent on ‘10 billion…
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Water Shortfall and its Upshot
The world since the last couple of decades seems to be fought for its rudimentary rights on various aspects including freedom of belief, state, speech, elimination of poverty, employment opportunities, health, and quality education. But water is the most important element that symbolizes the existence of life. The agrarian-based economy like Pakistan facing numerous challenges…
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Saving water for lives and environment to sustain our world
Since past decades, the world is under massive rigidity to face the current situation and challenges of the water scarcity and bad effects on our environment. The most important resources are water and oxygen to keep the balance of our existence in the earth but unfortunately water inadequacy is going to be limited. The advanced…
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Industrialization and Environment
This opinion is shared by Nazish Akhtar. Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. It is change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by…
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Anger as UK fails to rule out further North Sea drilling
London, (24th March, 2021, 08:40 pm) (AFP/APP):The British government on Wednesday angered environmentalists by saying it could license further oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, months before it hosts a climate change summit. The government made the announcement as it unveiled a new “North Sea Transition Deal”, aimed at helping lower carbon…
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Can protection of the oceans end global food supply and biodiversity crisis?
A recent research suggests that strictly protecting seas can lead to a steady supply of healthy food, along with survival of habitat and marine life, and perhaps a natural solution for climate change can be discovered. Opinion: Flaws and short coming in our education Sector India orders a large no. of corona vaccines at cheaper…
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UK orders inquiry into new coal mine
London, March 12 (AFP/APP):Britain has ordered a public inquiry into a planned deep coal mine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Friday, with the government performing a U-turn before hosting a key climate summit. Johnson said the coal mine plan “is something that needs to be looked at very carefully”. The prime minister, who will host…