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China issues revised regulations to protect underwater cultural relics

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua/APP): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has signed a State Council decree to promulgate the revised regulations on the protection of underwater cultural relics. The regulations will take effect on April 1 and lay down requirements to strengthen the conservation and management of […]

PHA to plant over 300,000 saplings under spring plantation drive 2022

Posted on February 27, 2022 by News Desk

RAWALPINDI, Feb 27 (APP): Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Rawalpindi would plant over 300,000 saplings under spring plantation drive 2022. Talking to APP, Vice Chairman, PHA, Malik Abid Mehmood informed that all available resources would be utilized to plant maximum saplings in different areas of […]

Plastic treaty would be historic for planet: UNEP chief

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Nairobi, Feb 25 (AFP/APP):The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic trash, the UN environment chief told AFP. Inger Andersen said a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Nairobi “holds […]

D&SJ inaugurates spring tree plantation drive

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

KASUR, Feb 26 (APP): District and Sessions Judge (D&SJ) Qaiser Nazir Butt inaugurated the spring tree plantation drive by planting saplings in the lawn of Sessions Court here on Saturday. He said: “Tree plantation is a charity and every citizen must play his role. We […]

Controversial study links pollution with bipolar, depression

Posted on February 26, 2022 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, FEB 25(Online): A recent study has concluded that exposure to air pollution, particularly during the first 10 years of life, could play a significant role in the development of psychiatric disorders. However, not everyone is convinced by the data. The study, which appears in […]

A blight on the beach, old flip flops given makeover in Kenya

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Kilifi, Kenya, Feb 24 (AFP/APP): Tangled in seaweed, buried in sand, washed up in rock pools — tattered old flip flops are an eyesore on Kenya’s beaches, flushed out of rivers or carried across the sea from Asia and beyond. They are the footwear of […]

Wildfires will get worse unless countries rethink prevention strategy: UN-backed report

Posted on February 24, 2022 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (APP): The global incidence of extreme wildfires is projected to surge by 50 percent by the end of the century — leaving almost no landscape invulnerable to this climate-driven danger, a UN-backed report has found. Both shifts in land use and […]

World must brace for more extreme wildfires: UN

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Paris, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared for the death and destruction such mega-blazes trail in their wake, the UN warned Wednesday. Even the most ambitious efforts […]

Reduction in air pollution can help improve functioning of kidney, suggests new study

Posted on February 23, 2022 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, Feb 22 (APP): Improving air quality may not only help your lungs but also your kidneys, suggests a study. Researchers from King’s College London found that ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration reduction led to significant improvement in laboratory test results used to assess […]

Italy’s Etna spews smoke and ashes, closing airport

Posted on February 22, 2022 by News Desk

Catania, Italy, Feb 21 (AFP/APP): Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, belched smoke and ashes in a new eruption on Monday, briefly forcing the closure of the airport of Catania in Sicily. The ash cloud rose 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into the […]

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