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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 […]

Pak-China step up cooperation on cotton research under climate change

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

BEIJING, Feb 19 (APP): As global climate change is intensifying, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSDC) and Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) are working together to establish a model through the study of the changes in climate characteristics and the corresponding changes in […]

Deadly wildfires, noise pollution among critical environmental threats, UN warns

Posted on February 18, 2022 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 17 (APP):Deadly wildfires, noise pollution and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report published on Thursday. “The Frontiers Report identifies and offers solutions to […]

Senate body inspects tree plantation protection, conservation of wildlife projects

Posted on February 15, 2022 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD – February 14 (ONLINE): Senate’s Climate Change Committee on Monday visited Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) Visitor Information Center, trail 06 after the recent development of Leopards found in the area reserved as the Leopard Preserve Zone as a permanent habitat of the wildcats, […]

Multan Waste Management Company chief for immediate repair of faulty machinery

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

MULTAN, Feb 12 (APP): Chief Executive Officer Multan Waste Management Company (MWMC) Muhammad Farooq Dogar has issued instructions to bring all machinery on road to further accelerate the “Month of Cleanliness” campaign. He issued these directions during a surprise visit to workshop and parking yard […]

Firefighters extinguish Kenya forest blaze

Posted on February 8, 2022 by News Desk

Aberdare, Kenya, Feb 7 (AFP/APP): A fire that raged for two days in Kenya’s Aberdare National Park has been extinguished after burning through hundreds of hectares of wilderness, a government forest official said on Monday. The blaze started Saturday and dozens of forest rangers, firefighters […]

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