Tag: Pakistan

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  Climate Change Will Destroy 5% of Pakistan's GDP

  Climate-related disasters and other losses will cost Pakistan $14 billion each year, a former environment has said.

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  Watch A Latrine Get Built In 51 Seconds

  Time-lapse video shows the construction of a latrine in rural Pakistan -- from before the hole is dug until the doors are hung on each 'stall.'

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  Southern Pakistan Hit By Worst Floods in Living Memory

  If you thought the flooding in the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Irene and subsequent storms dropping heavy rain, thank your lucky stars you're not in Pakistan. In a repeat of last summer, the nation is again in the grips of catastrophic flooding,

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  Adapting to Climate Change: Salt-Tolerant Biofuel Crops Could Turn Saline Soil Back Into Cultivable Land

  As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

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  As Pakistan Powers Down, Protests Mount: Climate Change A Root Cause

  After Pakistan's extensive hydroelectric power resources dried up in 2008, Australian coal was marketed to satisfy the growing power consumption

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  Indian Vultures Show Some Signs Of Recovery Since Veterinary Painkiller Ban

  Some good news on the critically endangered Indian vulture: New research published in PLoS One documents how the rate of the bird's decline has fallen since India, Nepal, and Pakistan banned the veterinary painkiller

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  Spiders Fleeing Floods Build Mosquito Buffet in Trees

  When heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and flood parts of Pakistan last year, it set into motion a surprisingly complex chain of events that scientists are only now beginning to understand -- and which may have

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  Animals Taunted and Confined at Bahawlpur Zoo (Video)

  PETA and I may disagree about the ethics of eating meat, and there are plenty of people who object to PETA's overly sexualized campaign tactics. Nevertheless, I have always felt they are one of the more effective campaign

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  Rogue Storm From Bay of Bengal Caused 2010 Pakistan Flooding

  We know that illegal logging contributed to the devastation caused by last summer's flooding in Pakistan, when up to 20% of the nation was underwater. New research now sheds light on how so much rain fell: A rogue

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  Pakistani Timber Mafia & Climate Change Caused Much of Summer's Flooding

  Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding--deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia, a group with

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  Pakistani Soldier Plants 20,101 Trees in One Day! Sets New World Record

  Let that sink in for a second: Over a period of 18 hours and 40 minutes on September 29th, Muhammed Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) in the Pakistani Army singlehandedly

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  Illegal Logging by Pakistan's Timber Mafia Increased Flooding Devastation

  Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber

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  Pentagon 'Discovers' Huge Lithium Deposit in Afganistan

  From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.

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  Bright Ideas in Earthquake-Safe, Ecofriendly Building

  Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,

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  Don't Oversimplify Glacier Retreating (and Advancing) Reports

  With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

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  Water Wars or Something Better: Can Water Bring Peace?

  Image credit: Marjukka Grover Because Water is so Vital, Even Enemies Can Find Common Ground There's no doubt that as our climate gets weirder, the world will increasingly face a severe water crisis. Given the fact that we absolutely cannot live without

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  Himalayan Houseboats Shut Down for Polluting Lake

  Adventurous, and eco-friendly, travelers often seek out off-beat lodging options, staying in yurts or on organic farms, both to soak up more local color and to avoid the

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  China Builds Dam on Indus, Doesn't Tell Pakistan

  If you're already on TreeHugger it's safe to assume that you've got an interested in what lies under the great green umbrella. And, now, if you've also got an