Shah Karez Khan Background The world is suffering from climate change. One of several reasons is the emission from excessive use of non-renewable sources of energy. In Pakistan also, 65 percent of the total energy needs are met by non-renewable sources, which on the one hand contributes to global warming and on the other puts […]
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From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role in our development as a species. But the way we power our societies has also created humanity\’s biggest challenge. It\’s one that will take all our ingenuity to solve. Energy is
Today, Mars is a frigid desert. But dried up deltas and riverbanks reveal that water once flowed over the plant’s surface. Where did it all go? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, hoping to understand how Mars became an arid wasteland while its neighbor, Earth, kept hold of its water and
By Muhammad Amin The word Nawroz has been derived from the Persian words, Naw and Roz`. Naw means new and Roz means day, respectively. As a whole, Nawroz means new day of the year. The tradition marks the first day of the spring or equinox and the beginning of the New Year in the Persian
Denmark and Norway have temporarily halted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, after Danish reports of some people having blood clots after vaccination and one death, BBC reported. The EU medicines agency has emphasized there is no indication the vaccine had caused blood clots. It said the number of cases in vaccinated people
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Retreating glaciers in the Himalayas are not only dangerously filling up glacial lakes but they are also causing other hazards that are not being monitored, scientists have warned. The recent flash flood disaster in India\’s Uttarakhand state, they say, is the latest example of such a perilous knowledge gap. The Himalayas have the largest number
Anti-vaccination protesters have gathered across Australia ahead of the launch of the country\’s coronavirus inoculation programme, BBC reported. Protests were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with participants chanting slogans like: \”My body, my choice.\” The rallies were largely peaceful, but police made several arrests in Melbourne, local media reported. The national rollout
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The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet\’s equator called Jezero. \”The good news is the spacecraft, I think, is in great shape,\” said Matt Wallace, the mission\’s deputy project manager. Engineers at Nasa\’s mission control in California erupted with joy when the confirmation of touchdown
Zofeen T. Ebrahim Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling. Any wrong move and you can start a rock fall,” she explained. Handling
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China\’s Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered the orbit above Mars\’ polar regions on Monday, moving closer to the red planet, the China National Space Administration said. The spacecraft activated its 3,000-Newton-thrust orbital-control engine at 5pm to conduct an orbital plane change maneuver to enter polar orbit with a perigee of about 265 kilometres above the
