Environmental Sciences News TED Countdown The United Nations Secretary General said, “Climate change is a race that we are losing, but it is a race we can win”. Climate change is one of the most pressing crises of our time which is happening at a pace faster than we imagined. The past 4 years have been the hottest on record […] Written by Zoha Asghar 2020-10-312021-08-03 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences Near-Biblical Locust Swarms: What Catastrophe Next? Since the start of the year, the world has witnessed some unpredictable and shocking events taking place around the globe, and despite our characteristically quick recovery from the disasters, the scale of these calamities cannot be dismissed. In 2018, a shifting pattern of consecutive rains in the Arabian Peninsula created pockets of water in the […] Written by M. H. Irshad 2020-08-112020-08-14 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences A Warm World: We Are In Hot Water Our world is getting hotter with each passing day. July 2018 was one of the warmest months ever recorded, and the July temperatures have been higher almost everywhere on our planet in the past 10 years. Scientists have already warned that we must limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst impacts […] Written by Saira Baig 2020-03-072021-03-25 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Aerosol’s Impact on Climate Change The increased use of non-renewable energy resources is usually considered the main cause of extreme climate change in the past few decades. However, scientists at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JLP) conducted studies that suggest the reduction in atmospheric aerosols can have a stronger impact on extreme winter weather compared to greenhouse gases. Aerosols […] Written by Aliza Khan 2020-03-072021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Combating Pollution from Diesel Engines with Ducted Fuel Injection Technology With rising debates on the climate change crisis, researchers and scientists are working tirelessly to provide solutions to combat existing pollution levels and introduce methods to reduce pollution in the future as well. However, it is difficult to incorporate these methods as they are not yet cost-effective or efficient enough to run the global economy. […] Written by Aliza Khan 2020-02-232021-04-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Can Plants Panic? Stressing out and panicking is something humans do almost all the time, but what’s surprising is that plants can panic too. Moreover, their source of panic comes from none other than the fundamental element of life: water, in the form of rain. It almost seems unbelievable that how something so essential for survival can cause […] Written by Urwa Fatima 2019-12-052021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Tuning to the Rhythm of Climate Change with Seismometers A seismometer is an instrument that is used to detect motion within the earth caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Connected with a timing and a recording device, the seismometer was originally made to listen out for vibrations in the ground due to moving tectonic plates; however, due to their sensitivity, they can be used […] Written by Aliza Khan 2019-11-102021-09-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News The Dark Impacts of Arctic Wildfires Researchers at ABoVE (NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) have recently studied the causes of Arctic wildfires and their impacts around the globe. Elizabeth Hoy, a boreal fire researcher and rest of the team at ABoVE dug out and examined a block of soil in Saskatchewan, Canada during a field expedition. ABoVE concluded that soils in […] Written by Safwan Azeem 2019-09-242021-09-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
