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  Economic expansion: Is it environmentally sustainable? By Masooma Amjad Khokhar   It may have gone unnoticed, but this is a historical event. For the first time in the entire history of humanity, we live in a world where poverty no longer affects most of the population. Surprised? Well you shouldn’t be. Experts already told you that this was about to happen. Let’s forget all the apocalyptic perspectives that we’ve covered for so many years about the world we live in. The truth is that today, on our planet, most of the population either belongs to the middle class or to the wealthiest classes. In other words, as you can see, poverty is now not such a looming issue. Yes, I know, there’s still a lot of poverty, but the truth is that we’ve never before known a world where poverty didn’t affect most of the population. Don’t tell me that is not great news. But just a second, you might be asking yourself some questions, like for example, what on earth are you talking about? What do you

 CHANGE IN WEATHER EVENTS   By Masooma Amjad Khokhar                                                                                                    We've seen so much extreme weather recently that it's hard to keep up with all the records that have been broken. In fact, in 2021, 10.6% of all-weather stations recorded temperatures. It's easy to blame global warming, but extremes have not only become hotter and drier, but they've also gotten wetter, snowier, windier, and colder. So we have to dig a bit deeper to understand why and where these extremes are happening so that we can prepare for what's actually coming our way. In this blog, we're going to explore groundbreaking new research that reveals one common factor connecting almost all of these extremes, and even suggests what we can expect in the future. And to do this, we'll start by zooming out way out to the troposphere. Then we're going back in time by drilling into Greenland's ice

CLIMATE CHANGE   by Masooma Khokhar The empty promises are the same and the inaction is the same. So what exactly are we doing wrong and how do we fix it? We’re going to kick this off with some basic science. So bear with me, because this is important. These are the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years. But this spike in carbon dioxide at the very end that took off during the industrial revolution. We started breaking CO2 records in 1950, and we haven’t stopped till date do you know why? Well, scientists say there’s a 95% chance that human activity is the cause. We’ve been burning more and more fossil fuels like oil and coal, which release CO2, to power our homes, factories, airplanes and cars. There’s also a lot more of us. The global population has tripled in the past 70 years. And we’re consuming more products from animals that release another pollutant called Methane. So all those gases are in the air, and when sunlight gets into the earth’