Environment

Plastic bags Imposition of ban on manufacturing, use hailed

Vice Chairman of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Investment and Trade, Senator Mohsin Aziz hailed the provincial government decision regarding imposition of ban on manufacturing and use of polythene sh

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
Tags:
Environment, Plastics, Non Biodegradable Waste, Health, Ecology, South Asia
Wildlife

Historical biogeography resolves the origins of endemic Arabian toad lineages (Anura: Bufonidae): Evidence for ancient vicariance and dispersal events with the Horn of Africa and South Asia

The Arabian Peninsula is home to a unique fauna that has assembled and evolved throughout the course of major geophysical events, including the separation of the Arabian Plate from Africa and subsequent collision with Eurasia.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
Daniel M. Portik, Theodore J. Papenfuss
BMC Evolutionary Biology
1-19
Tags:
Amphibians, Wildlife, South Asia, Africa, Fauna, Red Sea, India
Natural Disasters

Nepal to get early warning system

An early warning system for earthquakes will be built in Nepal, the Institute of Care-Life in Chengdu, Sichuan province, and the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology announced on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
China Daily
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Nepal, Disaster Preparedness, South Asia
Health

Pakistan faces a stunted generation in 15 years

Malnutrition in Pakistan will cost the nation heavily when 44 per cent of today’s children of ages up to five grow up as a stunted and unproductive generation in 10 to 15 years.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Tags:
Health, Malnutrition, Pakistan, Child Health, Food Security, Children, South Asia
Natural Disasters

Floods kill 169 people across Pakistan: NDMA

ISLAMABAD: Floods in different parts of Pakistan have left at least 169 people and injured 126 others, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
06/08/2015
Tribune (Pakistan)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Floods, Pakistan, South Asia
Health

Mortality risks in children aged 5–14 years in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic empirical analysis

Health priorities since the UN Millennium Declaration have focused strongly on children younger than 5 years. The health of older children (age 5–9 years) and younger adolescents (age 10–14 years) has been neglected until recently, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, and mortality measures for these age groups have often been derived from overly fl exible models. We report global and regional empirical mortality estimates for children aged 5–14 years in low-income and middle-income countries, and compare them with ones from existing models.

Publication Date: 
05/08/2015
Kenneth Hill, Linnea Zimmerman, Dean T Jamison
Lancet Global Health
1-8
Tags:
Child Health, Developing Countries, China, Statistics, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, South Asia
Health

Global, regional, and national consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, fruit juices, and milk: A systematic assessment of beverage intake in 187 countries

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), fruit juice, and milk are components of diet of major public health interest. To-date, assessment of their global distributions and health impacts has been limited by insufficient comparable and reliable data by country, age, and sex. The objective of the study was to quantify global, regional, and national levels of SSB, fruit juice, and milk intake by age and sex in adults over age 20 in 2010.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
05/08/2015
Gitanjali M. Singh, Renata Micha, Shahab Khatibzadeh & et al
PLoS ONE
1-20
Tags:
Soft Drinks, Milk, Consumption Patterns, Health Effects, India, South Asia, Global, Statistics, United States Of America (US), Europe, Africa, Asia
Environment

Carbon powder plant without clearance

‘Carbon is poisonous. It will destroy arable land and the environment. Our land will lose fertility and the factory, if built, will harm the villagers’

Publication Date: 
05/08/2015
Dhaka Tribune (Dhaka)
Tags:
Environment, Industry, Bangladesh, Land Pollution, Environment Clearance (EC), South Asia
Solid Waste

Govt steps up monitoring on plastic ban

KATHMANDU, AUG 04 - The government has decided to strictly reinforce the ban on polythene bags undertaken about three months ago, less than two weeks before the Great Earthquake struck the nation o

Publication Date: 
04/08/2015
Kathmandu Post (Nepal)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Plastics, Non Biodegradable Waste, Nepal, South Asia
Dams/ Irrigation

Dadhocha Dam would be built, Punjab assures SC

ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government assured the Supreme Court that it will go ahead with its plan to build the Dadhocha Dam, at the site allegedly being included in a housing scheme by private develop

Publication Date: 
04/08/2015
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Dams/ Irrigation, Pakistan, Punjab, Dams, Supreme Court, South Asia

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