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Pakistan to argue its case at Paris summit
Posted by Tribune: None Given on November 27th, 2015
Tribune: Pakistan will argue its precarious situation and risks to its economy owing to fast changing climate at next week’s global summit in Paris, vowed Federal Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid on Friday. “The case for Pakistan’s exposure to the climate change risks and prevailing opportunities would be compellingly presented at the climate change conference,” Hamid told a news conference in Islamabad. Hamid, who will be leading a 27-member Pakistan delegation at the two-week moot in Paris from...
Anti-Telescope Activist recoup another showdown w/ police
Posted by Tribune: None Given on April 13th, 2015
Tribune: Hawaiian native protesters continue their vigilance on Mauna Kea, on the look out for construction crews coming in to construct the Thirty Meter Telescope.
On Friday, after dawn break, a woman performed a mele dance atop Mauna Kea more than 9,000 feet above sea level. Dozens of people witness in silence, and some were even moved to tears, while the mountain’s peak grew clearer as fog retreated.
The construction of a $1.4 billion, thirty meters high telescope is one of the world’s most innovative...
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Comments Off on Anti-Telescope Activist recoup another showdown w/ policeFloods could affect nearly 2.7m people in Pakistan by 2030: Study
Posted by Tribune: None Given on March 5th, 2015
Tribune: As many as 2.7 million people could be affected yearly by river-floods in Pakistan by 2030; while the number of people globally affected by the floods every year could reach 54 million, a study said on Thursday.
According to the report, prepared by the US-based World Resources Institute think-tank and four Dutch research groups, it estimated that people being affected by the river-floods could reach up to 2.7 million people by 2013. Currently, an estimated 715,000 people in Pakistan are affected...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Floods could affect nearly 2.7m people in Pakistan by 2030: StudyKarachi has a lot on its plate, but still food insecure
Posted by Tribune: None Given on October 26th, 2014
Tribune: In the face of rising population and climate change, one of the biggest challenges that nations all over the world are facing is food insecurity.
The World Food Summit defines food security as: “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. At present, in total, around three billion people are malnourished out of a total global population of 7.2 billion people, which implies that around 40 per cent of the world is malnourished.’...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Karachi has a lot on its plate, but still food insecure$900m risk in Caribbean from rising sea levels
Posted by Tribune: None Given on November 17th, 2013
Tribune: RISING sea levels could cause the tourism industry to lose almost $900 million a year by 2050, says a research group.
Sea rise, surge or erosion could cause as much as 1,200 square miles of Caribbean coastal land to be lost along with damage or destruction of half of the major tourist resorts.
A report by the Inter-American Development Bank titled “Climate Change’s Impact on the Caribbean’s Ability to Sustain Tourism, Natural Assets, and Livelihoods” forecasts the destruction unless Caribbean...