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Forest fire rages across Kenya national park

Posted on February 7, 2022 by News Desk

Nairobi, Feb 6 (AFP/APP):Forest rangers and volunteers battled flames and strong winds on Sunday to stop a fierce fire raging across Kenya’s Aberdare national park for nearly 24 hours. The blaze broke out on Saturday night, according to an official working for Kenya Wildlife Service […]

Everest’s highest glacier rapidly losing ice: study

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Kathmandu, Feb 5 (AFP/APP): Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown. The South Col formation may already have lost around […]

Islamia University of Bahawalpur to identify factors contributing to Bahawalpur’s poor air quality

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

BAHAWALPUR, Feb 05 (APP): The Islamia University of Bahawalpur has purchased air quality sensors and other equipment for research on Bahawalpur’s poor air quality index. With the help of these devices, data of Bahawalpur Air Quality Index will be collected and compared with the data […]

Cultivation of Moringa tree tested in Balochistan

Posted on February 5, 2022 by News Desk

QUETTA, Feb 04 (APP): For the first time, cultivation of Moringa tree has been successfully tested on five acres of land in Lasbella district of Balochistan, Director Wayaro Research Farm Waqar Lasi said on Friday. While briefing the Secretary Agriculture Omid Ali Khokhar and DG […]

Kenya under fire over calls to ‘weaken’ forest protections

Posted on February 4, 2022 by News Desk

Nairobi, Feb 3 (AFP/APP): In his 15 years defending one of Nairobi’s last green spaces, Simon Nganga has seen off brazen attempts to seize what’s left of the lush forest bordered by highways and housing estates. Persistent efforts by developers and powerful individuals to seize […]

Myanmar, climate activists among Nobel Peace Prize nominees

Posted on February 2, 2022 by News Desk

Oslo, Feb 1 (AFP/APP): Myanmar’s defenders of democracy, a Belarus opposition leader, the pope, and environmental activists like Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough have emerged as likely nominees for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Following the January 31 deadline for nominations, several names are believed […]

Tiger breeding, exports flourish in S.Africa: charity

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Johannesburg, Feb 1 (AFP/APP):South Africa’s legal lion breeding has spawned a tiger farming industry for commercial exports, potentially posing a threat to the species already in decline, an animal welfare group warned Tuesday. Breeding lions for commercial hunting and for bone exports towards Asia is […]

China’s civil aviation sets out road-map for green development

Posted on January 30, 2022 by News Desk

BEIJING, Jan 30 (XINHUA/APP):China’s civil aviation industry will seek green and low-carbon development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), per a road-map issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. This is the first plan on green development for China’s civil aviation sector. It […]

Ailing whale found near Athens returns to deeper waters

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Athens, Jan 29 (AFP/APP):An ailing young whale found near the coast of Athens in a rare sighting has returned to deeper waters after receiving medication, Greek officials said on Saturday. The male Cuvier’s beaked whale is now swimming near the southern island of Salamis, deputy […]

Oil spill ‘nail in the coffin’ for Covid-hit Thai beach businesses