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Reversing migration trends

 Rural dwellers have long viewed life in urban centres of population as a massive step up from mountain, village and farm existence. With an additional two billion set to sweep into cities around the globe over the next 20 years, according to a recent World Bank report, existing humanitarian problems are liable to escalate completely out of control.
28 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
The Express Tribune
dream., farm, healthier, humanitarian, migration, mountain, population, village
10 August, 2012
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Walking on the wild side

The incredible importance of indigenous wild plants, especially of wild flowers, is not very well understood by members of the general population who simply take for granted that wild flowers will always be a basic and integral part of the environment but, very sadly indeed, they could not be more wrong!
21 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
Dawn News
agricultural, climate, flowers, Food, forested, human., mountains, population, vegetables, wild
08 April, 2012
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Why the delay in evacuation?

 Ignoring potentially lethal situations until they become a stark reality is something that successive governments in Pakistan have been very good at (in this case, the population itself is also guilty of just that).
21 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
The Express Tribune
agricultural, Flood, flooding, flowing, governments, organised, population, potentially, water
07 September, 2010
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Sustainable future for survival

 Rabid consumerism continues to wreak havoc on the planet as a whole. The results of this environmental rape and exploitation of natural assets is increasingly obvious right here at home in Pakistan where, unless you are extremely lucky indeed, it is next to impossible to walk anywhere without there being some kind of none-biodegradable garbage under foot, chocking gutters are ...
21 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
The Nation
adults, atmospheric, biodegradable, children, earth, educated, environmental, Food, garbage, ground, human, plant, population, society, water., wind
25 March, 2013
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Keep pedalling, chaps

 A young Lancashire lad stepped smartly off a troop ship in Karachi all of 68 years ago and never forgot the thrill of what followed. The lad was my Uncle Tom, my father’s elder brother and, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, he used to entertain us all with amazing stories of India which always somehow included cricket, football and, of all places, Rohri Junction.
18 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
The Express Tribune
childhood, earth., earthquake, family, floods, Grasshopper, hospital, population, school, village
11 July, 2010
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Encore: op-ed

With the barometer set to ‘extreme’ as climate change takes hold, catastrophic seasonal flooding is liable to become a regular occurrence. Despite being aware of this, however, successive governments have done absolutely nothing to alleviate the plight of that segment of society which has no option but to eke out a meagre existence on flood plains throughout the country. ...
17 May, 2013
Zahrah Nasir
Paktalibanisation
catastrophic, Flood, flooding, forecast, governments, history, meteorological, monsoon, onslaught, phenomenon., population, rain, weather, zones
02 August, 2010
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Cancer rare after fertility treatment

NEW YORK: Fertility treatment drugs may not be tied to an increased risk of developing cancer, suggests a new study of more than 24,000 Swedish women treated with in vitro fertilization (IVF).

10 December, 2010
www.geo.tv
birth, breast, cancer, drugs, fertilization, health, population, study, sweden, treated, treatment, university of lund, women
10 December, 2010
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No dengue case after Nov: secy

HYDERABAD, Nov 22: Barring teaching hospitals of Sindh, rest of its district hospitals remain sans cell separators and agitators that are essential for platelets transfusion and indispensable in dengue cases which are rising all over Sindh.

03 December, 2010
Daily Dawn
Our Staff Reporter
deaths, dengue, health, hospitals, karachi, mosquito, population, sindh, virus
23 November, 2010
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Future support conditional on polio eradication, warns WHO

Oct 26: Urging Pakistan to turn flood catastrophe into an opportunity, the DirectorGeneral of World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan tagged future financial support to addressing the health issues, particularly eradication of polio.

28 October, 2010
Daily Dawn
Mohammad Hussain Khan
afghanistan, Flood, health, lumhs, medical, polio, population, WHO
27 October, 2010
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Climate change sparks quickest evolution ever: study

VANCOUVER: At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild animals.
“Our study is the first to experimentally show that certain species in the wild could adapt to climate change very rapidly,” said lead researcher Rowan Barrett.
However, the University of British Columbia evolutionary geneticist warned, the evolutionary jump carries a deadly price tag: a high mortality rate.

10 August, 2010
Daily Dawn
climate change, freshwater, population
10 August, 2010
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