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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Aussie researchers reveal decline of native bird habitats

SYDNEY, Feb. 7 (Xinhua/APP) –:Researchers at the Queensland University have shown how large numbers of Australia’s endangered native birdlife have been driven out of their historical habitats since the nation was first colonised nearly 250 years ago. The research, published in the Environmental Research Letters […]

Forest fire rages across Kenya national park

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

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 […]

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