Category: Environment

An estimated 1.3 billion tons of food (33-50% of all food produced) is wasted globally each year, one third of all food produced for human consumption, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The cost of discarding food waste is approximately $410 billion annually. Food waste or Food growth, the […]

Over the last decade all global efforts to save Earth’s endangered species and declining ecosystems have mostly spoiled, due to lack of commitments and implementation of adequate measures. The latest report published by WWF one of the world’s largest and independent conservation organizations in collaboration with Institute of Zoology has indicated an average of 68% decline in population size of living species, between 1970 and 2016.

The absence of a comprehensive plastic pollution law and policy framework provides an opportunity for federal agencies to explore how and whether existing law and policy mechanisms can be used to address the threat of plastic pollution.

Late last month, residents of the tiny village of Hassanabad, in Hunza district, noticed floodwaters quickly rising in the stream that runs near their homes, carrying water from the towering Shishper glacier.

Human pressures have already transformed the majority of the world’s ecosystems by destroying and degrading marine and other aquatic habitats and undermining the services they used to provide.