Climate Change Conversation

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone," Joni Mitchell sang in " Big Yellow Taxi ".  Human population continues to increase and urban areas are growing and expanding. By 2050, about 70% of the world's population will live in cities ( FAO, 2016 ). These concentrated populations would have a wide variety of challenges, ranging from people without access to clean water to pollution-related health issues. According to UNICEF , children will face longer, hotter and more frequent heatwave by 2050. The health of 57% of children in Europe and Central Asia is at risk atleast 6 times year due to heatwaves. In such challenging conditions tr ees would play a important role for people and the planet. The benefits that trees provide can help cities and countries meet 15 of the 17 internationally supported United Nations Sustainable Development Goals .  Trees are beautiful part of the natural environment, and constantly working to make Earth ...

"We need peace, now more than ever. In 2023, let’s put peace at the heart of our words and actions." - Antonio Guterres   Peace and security are basic needs for a better tomorrow. Everyone needs these two, everyday. Violent conflict, insecurity, and political instability are making life hell in many parts of the world; the current examples are Afghanistan and Ukraine. World needs peacebuilding efforts to establish peace in such regions. In the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, “it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” Here are some suggestions for a peaceful world:  1- Conflict in a nation or region starts when people can’t trust the police and the system or get justice, and their lives are stolen by the corrupt system. Such conditions create a battleground against the system. Government should stop the negligence, abuse and stigmatisation of their citizens. Media and social media must stop...

“Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line, nor should there be”. Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902)   Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near future. The World Health Organization  (WHO) warned in its 2007 report that infectious diseases are emerging at a rate that has not been seen before.   Infectious diseases are caused by organisms which are known as pathogens. Many viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans, prions, viroids, and similar parasites are pathogens. Each type of pathogenic organism has climatic conditions it prefers. Such conditions positively affect the ability to survive and spread diseases.  According to a recent study published in Nature, atleast 10,000 virus species have the ability to infect humans but, at present, the vast majority are circulating silently in wild mammals...