Sir: This refers to the news item, ‘Experts for revival of climate change ministry’, published in your esteemed and popular paper (Daily Times, January 7, 2014). Besides the use of an enormous amount of coal, fast increasing traffic density is the other substantial contributing factor to air pollution and the resulting increase in fog duration/intensity […]
The year 2013 was an important and worrying one when it comes to climate change, because the UN’s global body of scientists who collaborate on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told us clearly in a report that was released at the end of September that global warming today is the result of human […]
In 2013, the UN’s global panel of scientists told us that global warming is the result of human activities (95 per cent confidence), effectively putting an end to the debate over whether mankind is responsible for rising temperatures or if we are undergoing yet another cyclical movement of warming caused by natural factors. Science is […]
ISLAMABAD: “Almost 40 per cent glaciers in Afghanistan have been reduced in 40 years, whereas the glaciers supplying water to Ravi, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum Rivers are thinning,” said Dr Chaudary Inayatullah, Climate Change Expert at Save the Children. Dr Chaudhry was speaking at a seminar, ‘Building Resilience in the Indus Basin’, on Tuesday, organised […]
ISLAMABAD: Politicians and experts called for regional approach and peace initiatives to meet the growing threats to national security from climate change. “Around 500 million people in South Asia live on the coastal belt and their livelihoods will be destroyed if the sea levels rise,” Senator Mushahid Hussain said while moderating a seminar. He said […]
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