Monsoon on Steroids 1000s killed in Pakistan

A climate Catastrophe has led to at least 1, 136 deaths according to the UN and has affected more than 30 million people which equates to one in seven Pakistanis. On 28 August, Pakistan’s military rescued a boy who was stranded in the middle of a heavily-flooded stream.  Antonio-Guterres urged the world to come to…

UK ban on trade of ivory

A total ban on trade of ivory has come into effect in an “important conservation victory” for the world’s elephants. The export and import and dealing of elephant ivory items of all ages not only those produced after a certain date – is now illegal, unless they have been registered or have an exemption certificate.…

Deforestation of Amazon

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil has reached record levels for the month of April according to preliminary government data revealed on Friday. In April deforestation in the region totaled 1, 012.5 Km²(390Miles²) according to the National space research agency Inpe. Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in the first four months hit a record of 1, 954…

7-year-old Aneeshwar ” We need to stop getting it wrong”

Anil Aneeshwar Kunchala, a seven-year-old environmentalist impressed the judges by reciting his own  poem about his passion for wildlife conservation and saving the planter, as his friends  dressed in animal and nature costumes joined him on the stage of the ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Dogs and their human companions also featured as Doctor Louise Geller…

International Women’s Day

The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…

Power of resilience: Child Poverty

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot of The New York Times investigates eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with mega imagination as the skyscrapers, near Brooklyn homeless shelter. Dasani’s ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north, grows up, moving with her tight-knit family shelter to shelter, is named for the…

Energy in human affairs

Czech-born professor and Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba,  a world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath, in a thought provoking book  “How the World Works”, encounters the influential thinking, crushes complex data, with fundamental importance of energy in human affairs. We never had so much information or disinformation at our…

Patent Suit dropped against Tesla

Nikola, an American electric-car start up company and pioneer in zero-emission trucks, offering pure electric and also hydrogen electric power across multiple who has delivered its first two vehicles to a customer operating at the ports of Loa Angeles and Long Beach, has dropped its US $2 billion suit against Tesla. The lawsuit filed in…

169 killed after a powerful Super Typhoon Rai struck

At least 169 people have been killed after a powerful Super Typhoon Rai struck the Philippines on Thursday with winds about 120 mph ( 195km/h) made 300, 000 people on the run for safety. There were fears  widespread landslides and flooding may have claimed more lives. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…

Deadly Tornadoes kills 100 in Kentucky and does catastrophic damage

Rescue workers  from the National Guards from six states Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missoroi,  Mississippi and Tennessee, are desperately searching for survivors scouring through the rubbles in Kentucky.  100-year-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church in Kentucky was destroyed in seconds by the tornado. Over hundred people have died in Kentucky including dozens in a candle factory,…