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Artificial tree suck up air pollution as a small forest
A Mexican startup named Biomitech has developed an artificial tree that is capable of sucking up the equivalent amount of air pollution as 368 living trees. Researchers called Biourban, the…
Air University Tree Plantation Drive at Isb
Air University, in order to play active role for the success of Green & Clean Pakistan campaign, has started tree plantation drive at Pir Sohawa, Margalla Hills. According to details,…
MoCC, IUCN national workshop on 10 billion tree tsunami
Ministry of Climate Change and IUCN Pakistan in collaboration organized a two days National workshop on July 8 - 9, 2019 at Islamabad. The workshop objective is to draw out…
Tree Plantation Drive by Nestlé & MCI
With its commitment to Prime Minister’s ‘Clean Green Pakistan’ initiative, Nestlé Pakistan is paving the way for a sustainable environment by launching a country-wide tree plantation drive. Advancing the initiative,…
Nestlé Pakistan started tree plantation campaign
Nestlé Pakistan commits to planting 50,000 trees across its operational areas in Pakistan as part of the Prime Minister’s Clean Green Pakistan initiative. Nestlé Pakistan’s commitment is also part of…
Punjab University launches tree plantation drive
Global warming badly affecting our environment, to avoid devastation a massive tree plantation drive desires. In this regard, Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zafar Mueen Nasir has launched tree…
1 million tree plantation in Sindh
Sindh Minister for Forests and Wildlife Syed Nasir Husain Shan has said that approximately one million tree plantation will be made in first phase in the city to start the…
Gene editing tool Cocoa CRISPR “chocolate tree”
Gene-Editing Tool CRISPR-Cas9: CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. In bacteria’s and in archaea CRISPR is a family of DNA sequence. The sequence contains the small pieces of…
Chinese fir tree compound may help to combat cancer
New research finds that a structural analog of a compound found in an endangered Chinese fir tree has cancer-fighting properties when combined with an existing cancer drug. The National Cancer…
Beijing elects 10 ‘tree kings’ to enhance ancient tree protection
Beijing's greening authorities said Thursday that the 10 "most beautiful tree kings" have been elected in an effort to protect ancient trees across the city. Beijing Gardening and Greening…
FFC holds national tree plantation drive
Keeping up the government’s initiative to build a better & greener Pakistan, Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC) has also pledged its support for the national cause. In this respect, FFC organized…
To mark World Forest Day IST celebrate event “Tree Legacy”
PR: Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad celebrated the world forest day with its full bloom and zest under the supervision of Environmental Society, IST, the purpose of the celebrating world…
Strict action against tree cutting in capital
Strict action will be taken against cutting of trees on Embassy Road Islamabad said the National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change. Malik Muhammad Uzair Khan, Chairman Committee in Parliament…
Government pledges to encourage tree plantation across Pakistan
Government pledges to encourage the plantation of 100 million trees across Pakistan under a prime minister’s Green Pakistan programme to improve the environmental condition of Pakistan. The World Bank is…
UAF holds awareness walk to mark national tree plantation day
FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) held an awareness walk to
mark national tree plantation day aimed at creating the awareness among the people about…
Wapda launches tree plantation campaign
TISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has launched its 'One Million-Tree Plantation Campaign', which aims at planting one million trees at various Wapda projects in the…
Accused in olive tree scam yet to be punished
ISLAMABAD: The people involved in the olive tree scam, which was unearthed earlier this year, have yet to be penalised, though the evidence clearly indicates misappropriation in the project…