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    Naseem Sheikh

    Naseem Sheikh

  • World Osteoporosis Day

    World Osteoporosis Day was launched on 20 October 1996 by the United Kingdom's National Osteoporosis Society and supported by European Commission. Since 1997, the day has been organized by IOF .

  • Extreme Weather Pummels the Asia

    Climatic changes are actually happening and Earth is heating up, the glaciers melting and water is being consumed by the growing population.  South Asia is the most vulnerable region of the world as its population is growing far too quickly and the gl

  • Facebook Sets the Benchmark on Carbon Footprints

    A company’s carbon foot print is an important part of their branding.

  • Slight Efforts by Each of Us Will Make a Big Difference…

    In Pakistan, the annual mean surface temperature has been  consistently rising trend since the beginning of 20th century. The rise in mean temp. has been  of 0.6-1.0°C in arid coastal areas, arid mountains and hyper arid plains, and there has been a 10-1

  • Mangroves: A Non-Edible Bio Fuel in Peril

    The escalating and inelastic demand for energy to fuel economic activities exerts pressures on its limited supply. The skyrocketing prices of petroleum products results in the depletion of non-renewable energy sources and the continued investigation and

  • AquaPonics: Latest Environmental and Climate Friendly Way of Gardening and Poverty Elemination

    Aquaponic is a combination of two words, Aqua – water and Ponics-Farm in a box.“Aquaponics an environmentally-friendly, natural food growing method to facilitate the cultivation of fish and plants together in a constructed, re-circulating ecosystem utili

  • Time for Action on Dams in Pakistan

    Electricity generation is a major concern for much of the world, since demand is rising.Hydropower is electricity generated using the energy of moving water. Electricity generated from water is entirely renewable, since water is an abundant natural resou

  • Water Problems for Survival and Pakistan

    Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent with a population in 2011 of  3,879,000,000 (3.8 billion). It covers 8.6% of the Earth’s total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the w

  • The Pakistani Water Crisis

    No doubt Pakistan’s water crisis is predominantly a manmade problem. Pakistan’s climate is not particularly dry and nor is it lacking in rivers and groundwater. Extremely poor management, unclear laws, government corruption, and industrial and human wast

  • Alternative Power: Save the Economy and the Environment-by-Naseem Sheikh

    Pakist­an needs to shift to enviro­nment-friend­ly energy. Pakistan must adopt other technologies for generating power from renewable energy sources, such as municipal waste and landfill methane geothermal recovery, anaerobic biomass gasification, biolog

  • 2011 Impact of Climate on Asia and Mainly on Pakistan is Change Massive

    Throughout 2011 we have seen  some of the extreme weather effects of climate change stinging. Global warming means killer storms more worse than Katrina and Gustav, unexpected flooding in Asia, drought in Eastern Europe, unseasonal heavy rains in western

  • Pakistan -Living Under the Black-Outs Because of Insufficient Electricity

     Pakistan is under black-outs due not just because of terrorism, corruption, and inflation. No, mostly it's because of electricity and gas shortages and this in long run affects every sector of life which you can imagine. Natural disasters like The Great

  • Lifeline in Pakistan Under Severe Stress-by- Naseem Sheikh

    For years, the matter of balancing Pakistan's supply against the demand for electricity has remained a largely unresolved matter. Pakistan now faces a significant challenge in revamping its network responsible for the supply of electricity. Pakistan’s en

  • Noise Pollution, Perpetrator of Many Health Problems in Pakistan - by Naseem Sheikh

    Noise has become a very important "stress factor" in the environment of man. The term "noise pollution" has been recently used to signify the hazard of sounds which are consequence of modern day development, leading to health hazards of different type. But what do governments do in a proactive wa

  • Fog is Rising in Pakistan-by-Naseem Sheikh

    In wintertime, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtun khawan and upper Sindh areas are affected by Fog. As cold air from the north recedes and day temperatures fall sufficiently, warm and humid air comes in from the sea. During this time, the warm and humid air may be cooled sufficiently by the underlying cold surf

  • Electricity Status of Pakistan is Really Disturbing and Short -by- Naseem Sheikh

    We believe that electricity exists, because its life line of the countries,and the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, although we cannot consume it all 24 hours. ”Pakistan is in the grip of a serious energy crisis that is affecting all se

  • Asian Countries Face the Greatest Risk from Severe Climate Change -by- Naseem Sheikh

    s Ban Ki Moon said in September 2007 “ Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we

  • Rise in Temperature, Flooding and Responsibilities of Pakistani Governments -by Naseem Sheikh

    This year will be world’s tenth warmest on record since 1850, and the highest ever in a year which experienced a La Niña event, a meteorological phenomenon which is supposed to have a cooling influence on Earth’s atmosphere, a United Nations agency r

  • Pakistan Blessed with Coal but Still Poor for Electricity -by- Naseem Sheikh

    Pakistan is in the grip of a serious energy crisis that is affecting all sectors of the economy and the various segments of the society. Luckily Pakistan has blessed by many types of resources but lack of attention and sincerity among authority lea

  • The Benefits of Low Emission Coal Technology-by Naseem Sheikh

    Although we should not promote coal as energy resource as its really very toxic and not environmental friendly but now days Pakistan is in the grip of a serious energy crisis that is affecting all sectors of the economy and the various segments of t