Engineering Featured Fighting Environmental Injustice A few years back a mother of two in Flint Michigan, upon finding that one of her children was not growing well, called an environmental engineer to test her home’s water supply. The tests revealed elevated levels of lead. This happened right after Flint’s water source was switched from the Detroit river and Lake Huron […] Written by ideaXme 2020-04-262020-08-25 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
Featured Life Science The Key to Immortality: Jellyfish Deep in the vast abyss of the ocean, roams a creature that might hold the elixir to immortality. When this creature of wonder dies, it rises again from its own remains… Humans, throughout history, have embroiled themselves in the quest for immortality. Beginning from early pursuits into alchemy to modern-day anti-aging means, the eagerness to […] Written by Eman Toosy 2019-10-302019-10-30 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News Forests Can Curb Global Warming Better Than We Think Planting trees to save the environment has been chanted like a mantra for decades now, but the extent to which trees could actually make a difference was still not clear until recently when Tom Crowther, a professor of global ecosystem ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, published a study in Science […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-07-272021-06-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Environmental Sciences News It’s Raining Microplastics in France! A study in France found about 11,400 pieces of microplastic per square meters of air per month in Pyrenees, a mountain range between Spain and France. The study was carried out in a remote place roughly 75 miles away from the nearest city, Toulouse. The researchers found that 365 pieces of microplastic per square meter […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2019-04-302021-06-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Road Construction: A step towards green environment? Various demographic and commercial changes in the metropolitan areas emphasize the need for better transportation facilities. As the human cardiovascular system transports blood and distributes nutrients to all parts of the body properly when there are no disruptions in the veins and arteries: a good transportation network is similarly necessary for economic and commercial development. […] Written by Iqra Naveed 2018-03-252018-03-30 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Science Climate Change: What can we learn from the Herders’ Community of Northern Pakistan? Climate change is real and the evidences are quite compelling. Almost 99% of the scientists today agree on it and this became a reason for Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to proclaim in 2007 that climate is changing and these changes will increase in future. The worst impacts of climate change are felt in […] Written by Mohsin Ali 2018-02-242018-07-21 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
