Environment and Us :: Pollution
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Plastics In Our Environs
junaid jazib Jun 6, 2009Every 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 by the generations to come.
Creepy Chemicals
Mutaal Mooquin Dec 18, 2008This Holiday season, toys containing harmful phthalates, which are known endocrine disruptors, will fill up the shelve space in the markets.
Paper Trail
Mutaal Mooquin Jun 5, 2008To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.
Karachi’s Plastic Bag Ban
Zainub Razvi Apr 2, 2007The ban applies to not just the manufactures and sellers but also the users of the plastic bags. Yes, that means us.
Venus, Earth, and Mars - The Untold Story
Muhammad A Hussain Jan 23, 2007Some scientists speculate that the three planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars, shared approximately similar geology at the time of their cooling from their molten newly-born states. The evolution of these three planets along different lines from a similar dist
The Globe Is Warm
Saima Shah Jun 14, 2006Global warming has been suspended as in global w-a-r-m-i-n-g? Like deferred taxation it is something we will reckon with whenever, if ever. Is it time for the skeleton in the closet to be acknowledged?
Deforestation and Drought
Arshad Abbasi Jun 6, 2006Massive deforestation started in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2000 Pakistan lost an average of 41,100 hectares of forest per year with an average annual deforestation rate of 1.63 per cent. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate increased to 2.02 per cent per ann
Whither Hath This Winter Gone
Quinton Zondervan Mar 25, 2004Soon dandelions shall bloom
in March, dispersing
the winter’s gloom
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