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Climate grave threat to billions in urbanized world

Paris, Feb 28 (AFP/APP):From searing “heat islands” to flash floods and rising seas, an increasing torrent of climate change impacts threatens half of the world’s population living in urban areas, a major report by UN experts said Monday. Cities will have to adapt to protect […]

NA body discusses PEPA Amendment Bill 2021

ISLAMABAD, Feb 28 (APP): The National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change on Monday discussed the pros and cons of “The Pakistan Environmental Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2021” and directed the Climate Change Ministry to hold a meeting with Mover of the Bill and Ministry of […]

China issues revised regulations to protect underwater cultural relics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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