Tag Archives: CLIMATE

Extreme Climate change in Pakistan

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Pakistan could be in for a sharp rise in average temperatures and extremely erratic weather.It was opined in a seminar.The seminar, analysed data in a new report produced by top non-government organisations, LEAD-Pakistan and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, … Continue reading →

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Poor Health and Loss of Biodiversity are Slowing Down Economies in Tropics

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Per Capita incomes of Tropical countries  could be more than double if they managed to reduce their health burden from vector-borne and parasitic diseases to that of  temperate countries. Scientistss from Harvard Medical School and Princeton University in the United States … Continue reading →

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Extraterrestrial lakes

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

At present the surface of the planet Mars is too cold and has too little atmospheric pressure to permit the pooling of liquid water on the surface. Geologic evidence appears to confirm, however, that ancient lakes once formed on the … Continue reading →

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Lakes:Inland Flowing Water Bodies

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

A lake is a body of relatively still water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land apart from a river, stream, or other form of moving water that serves to feed or drain the lake. … Continue reading →

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