Reach the masses
LAST month, the World Bank and the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics convened a two-day national dialogue titled ‘Reforms for a Brighter Future: Time to Decide — A Conversation on…
The quest for immortality
The quest for immortality has been as timeless as it has been fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates the tale of King Gilgamesh…
Covid air war being lost, experts warn, urging mass ventilation
The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid — properly ventilating public spaces — more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. At…
Hungry and parched
Trees throughout the world are vulnerable to excessive heat. A warmer atmosphere sucks more moisture from plants and soil. During droughts, trees close pores in leaves, called stomata, or shed…
Heatwave batters Spain’s Mediterranean mussel crop
“There’s nothing left here,” sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he’s just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead. With the…
Climate change crisis and global response
The existential threat of climate change is unfolding fast, and the window of limiting average global temperatures below 1.5C — to avoid any permanent natured changes to climate, something which…
Pakistan must change direction
Pakistan’s persistent failure to develop a strong economy and combat growing poverty stems from incompetent governance accompanied by massive corruption at the highest levels, leading to economic collapse, and bringing…
The real and present killer
Bomb blasts. Shoot-outs. Missiles. All are killers. When they happen, there is uproar. There is panic. There are emergency meetings. There are drastic steps taken. As they should be. How…
Youth and longevity
MUNA Khan’s interesting column titled ‘Forego the FOGO’ (fear of getting old) published recently on these pages was food for thought. She is spot on, especially in her observation that…
The winds of change
SILENCE is complicity, said the Philippines Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa in her 2022 memoir How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Our biggest problems are the results of choices…
