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Arsenic Contamination in Drinking Water in Pakistan

mussarat jabeen   Apr 28, 2010   interacts: 5

Arsenic from water can effect human health directly as well as through the food chain in our eco-system, for example

The Black Drain Of Hyderabad, Sindh

Syed Hussaini   Feb 26, 2010   interacts: 36

The city of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, dumps its sewage, including human waste, raw, untreated into the two fresh water canals running along the eastern fringes

No Rain, No Grain

Munir Ahmed   Feb 7, 2010   interacts: 6

If we enter into agricultural drought, the third and final stage, it would affect thousands of small farmers all over

Chalo Chalo Copenhagen Chalo

Salman Aneel   Dec 13, 2009   interacts: 23

Call me a pessimist but as I follow the Pakistani news and civil society activism about COP15 the phrase “Chalo Chalo Copenhagen Chalo” (Lets go

An Unsustainable Future

Asad Badruddin   Aug 27, 2009   interacts: 3

With energy shortages peaking this summer all around Pakistan, there could have been a serious opportunity to drastically change the way Pakistan produces energy.

Environment, Kyoto Protocol and the Carbon Market

Zafir Zia   Jun 29, 2009   interacts: 7

Pakistan today considered to be among the top 20 countries in the world that are gravely endangered to the adverse affects of climate change.

Water Scenario: Past, Present and Future of Pakistan

Zafir Zia   Jun 24, 2009   interacts: 9

Per capita availability of surface water in Pakistan is gradually dwindling from 5300 cubic meter in 1951 to 1000 cubic meters in 2005 and is

Plastics In Our Environs

junaid jazib   Jun 8, 2009   interacts: 2

Every time we use and throw a plastic product we contribute our share to a deadly pollution whose far-reaching and irreversible ill-effects will be borne

An Eco-bag Full of News!

monika d   May 28, 2009   interacts: 1

An empty stomach can be as much of a devil’s workshop as an empty mind. Making their clients self reliant, is therefore, as much of

Pakistan Faces Unprecedented Water Scarcity

Riaz Haq   Mar 25, 2009   interacts: 97

There are successful examples of private citizens addressing sanitation issues on a local, community level. For instance, Dr. Akhtar Hamid Khan is the force behind

Jihad for the Sake of Environment

Sairah Ali   Mar 24, 2009   interacts: 1

The Water Table is dying. Without constant cooperation now the Earth will begin to die bit by bit. Like the Vedanta Brahman, all Humanity is

Sun Running the Cells

Fahimullah Khanzada   Feb 19, 2009   interacts: 5

According to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), one of the foremost challenges Pakistan will be facing in future is the supply of adequate energy.

Creepy Chemicals

Mutaal Mooquin   Dec 22, 2008   interacts: 15

This Holiday season, toys containing harmful phthalates, which are known endocrine disruptors, will fill up the shelve space in the markets.

Effects of Climate Change and Bio-Energy

NoorAli Noorani   Nov 11, 2008   interacts: 7

In Asia, temperatures are expected to rise 2-8 degrees Celsius in next 8-10 years affecting climatic variations like decreased rainfall,

Global Warming: Green with Controversy

Mutaal Mooquin   Aug 17, 2008   interacts: 8

Its effects will happen 30 years down the road, and then you say, "Okay, do something about it."

Paper Trail

Mutaal Mooquin   Jun 6, 2008   interacts: 6

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but

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