Researchers have found that the waxing and waning of the sun affects our planet’s temperature in exactly the opposite way scientists had thought. The work suggests, counterintuitively, that when the Sun is at the dimmest point of its 11-year solar cycle, as it was in December 2009, it warms the Earth most, and vice versa. “When

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The second in a four-part series on Pakistan’s flood disaster. Click here to read part one. TARBELA RESERVOIR, Pakistan — “I think, after terrorism, the biggest threat we have is the environmental decay.” Tariq Yousafzai, a water and environmental engineer with detailed knowledge of his country’s water infrastructure, sees evidence of climate change in the flood disaster

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Chitral –International Day of Climate Change was celebrated in Booni, Chitral , Pakistan , through the joint efforts of Chitral Association for Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) and Orion School of Learning (OSL). Theevent was facilitated by 350.org. As many as 500 people from different walks of life e.g. community leadership, women representatives, scholars, volunteers, parents

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MAN-MADE climate change was a major cause of devastating floods in Pakistan this year, shifting monsoon rains away from flood defences and into areas of the country incapable of dealing with the deluge, according to Pakistani scientists. More than 1,700 people died and millions lost their homes as catastrophic levels of floodwater surged south from

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