Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Beyond the deluge
14Aug10
When I was in Bonn, Germany in June for the Deutsche-Welle-arranged Global Media Forum conference on Climate Change, one of the keynote speakers was a 12-year old boy. Felix Finkbeiner of Plant for the Planet, a climate protection network for school-age children, acted on an idea he had three years ago to plant 1 million [...]
Filed under: Environment, Social Issues | 11 Comments
Tags: climate change, Pakistan floods
The Ticking Bomb
25May10
The ‘ticking water bomb’ that is Attabad lake in Hunza has already exploded for many. Caused by a major landsline on January 4, the expanding lake has already killed 20, left about 25,000 people stranded, and blocked the Hunza river about 750 kilometres north of Islamabad. It has destroyed the Karakoram Highway, breaking the road [...]
Filed under: Environment, Media, Politics, Social Issues | 6 Comments
Tags: Attabad lake, climate change, Hunza, IUCN, Pakistan

