Category: Environment
Why Is Pakistan Drowning and China Drying?
Historic heatwave events increased 90-fold, meaning historic glacier melting –Pakistan has 7,000 glaciers, which means…
IMAGINEERING Houses Amid Climate Change Challenges Home & Abroad (Pics, Videos)
The Pakistan floods 2022 have woken the world up (including me) to the country’s acute…
WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas,…
Pakistan Floods 2022: ‘Most Misgoverned Parts Are Worst Hit’
IRSHAD SALIM (Updated) — The OCHA Humanitarian Advisory Team (HAT) in Pakistan has published its…
Inequality, Justice, and Economics
by Raji Jayaraman in 3QuarksDaily: In the last two decades the topic of inequality has…
WATCH: A Dump in Karachi, The Zero Waste Colony of New Delhi, and…
IRSHAD SALIM – Last week, I watched three different videos shared at three different WhatsApp…
Waterlight, the Revolutionary Lantern (Video)
IMAGINEERING: This portable lantern assembled with 100 percent recyclable materials only needs seawater to charge….
The Animal Crisis Is a Human Crisis
The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating…
How Insect ‘Civilizations’ Recast Our Place in the Universe
When looking to other creatures for signs of intelligence, insects are rarely the most obvious…
Qatar: Faster Than We Thought
Omar El Akkado in Orion: I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the…
‘Rivers in Bangladesh Have Vanished Due to the Effect of the Farakka Barrage’
Although flooding has become a routine annual affair in Bangladesh, more than half of its…
Scaling the World’s Largest Urban Vertical Farming Network
In a conversation with McKinsey, Infarm CEO and cofounder Erez Galonska shares his passion and…