He was in Afghanistan to cover the main commemoration of the takeover by the Taliban of the country. The writer arrived at Kabul on August 3.
Mallick disappeared on Thursday in the wake of documenting a tale about the 'safehouse' where Al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a robot strike.
"We at the Foreign Office are profoundly worried about the vanishing of Anas Mallick, FO journalist, from Kabul yesterday," the Foreign Office had said in an explanation on Twitter after reports arose that he is absent.
It had added that the public authority is in contact with neighborhood specialists and Pakistan Embassy in Kabul for his initial and safe re-visitation of Pakistan.Vast measures of planet-warming carbon dioxide are made during the production of many key materials that help our lives - from paper to plastic. Our current circumstance examiner Roger Harrabin has been investigating extraordinary failure carbon innovations which could assist with cutting those emanations. He has enrolled craftsmen to assist him with recounting the story.
Researchers have designed an enchanted device that draws the ink off printer paper so each sheet can be utilized multiple times over.
They intend to cut how much planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) outflows from the paper and mash industry by lessening interest for office paper.
The secret to the alleged "de-printer" is uncommonly covered paper, which stops ink (or powdered toner) from drenching into the page. A strong laser then disintegrates the ink.
Lead engineer, Barak Yekutiely from Reep Technologies in Israel, portrays it as roundabout printing.
"Assuming that we care about the planet, we should quit chopping down such countless trees," he says.The development is highlighted in an iPlayer narrative on environment tech arrangements. It's known as The Art of Cutting Carbon, and it's my last film for the BBC following 35 years revealing the climate.
The film frames part of a show at Cornwall's Eden Project, where I have organized models in steel, concrete, plastic, aluminum and paper - to assist me with featuring the enormous measures of planet-warming CO2 created around the world from assembling these regular materials.
The Art of Cutting Carbon
Climate Analyst Roger Harrabin gives an account of the undertakings of British craftsmen working with concrete, steel, aluminum, plastic and cardboard.
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Together, these covered up "implanted" outflows make definitely more CO2 than every one of the world's planes, trucks, vehicles, trains and ships put together.Experts say one approach to handling those discharges is to concoct new advances that limit how much CO2 delivered. Another is essentially to utilize less stuff.
The de-printer is essential for a torrential slide of advancement to create innovations fit for the low-carbon age.
In northern Sweden, one organization is a brilliant illustration of how to remove CO2 from steel producing. Universally, the business radiates very nearly three billion tons of the gas a year - that is generally equivalent to all the yearly CO2-creating exercises in the whole Indian economy.
Regularly, making steel includes blending iron-bearing stone in with coke - which gets from coal - then super-warming it at 1,500C, utilizing exceptionally contaminating coal or gas.
The intensity sets off a synthetic response that transforms the iron into a forerunner of steel. Yet, this makes much more CO2 - as a matter of fact, the cycle makes a greater number of lots of CO2 than it makes steel.But now, in the town of Lulea - only south of the Arctic Circle - the global steel maker SSAB has tracked down an approach to halting the production of CO2.
The initial step is to utilize sustainable power -, for example, from wind turbines or hydro power - rather than coal to create the important intensity. Stage two is to substitute hydrogen for coke in the response stage.
Rather than delivering CO2 as a side-effect, the response with hydrogen and iron creates just H2O… water.
Request is high for the world's initial zero-carbon dioxide steel - the creators are turning down new requests.
The concrete business produces 2.5 billion tons of CO2 every year. Concrete is the principal holding element for the substantial that frames the designs in our lives.
Yet, making it includes warming limestone and that makes billows of CO2. Tackling coal or gas to give the intensity makes a twofold dose.Now substantial creators are trying different things with other restricting materials that needn't bother with to be cooked similarly, and enormous players in the business plan to be carbon unbiased by 2050.
In any case, we can hardly stand by that long to handle environmental change, so the rail firm HS2 is building a viaduct in Buckinghamshire in south-east England produced using a sandwich of concrete and steel.
This savvy configuration permits less material to be utilized by bridling the different actual properties of the concrete and steel such that's getting on quick. The specialists say this development reduces materials expenses and parts the CO2 discharges that would have been found in a more conventional development.
Obviously, taking a choice not to fabricate the questionable HS2 course in any case would have saved a lot more emanations.
Furthermore, there's a developing pattern among specialists to attempt to extract more from framework that as of now exists, for example, revamping structures as opposed to wrecking them and utilizing concrete to construct substitutions.
The plastics business is one more of the main five CO2 guilty parties. Practically all the world's plastic is gotten from high-contaminating oil and gas.
However, in the Netherlands a bio-substance firm Avantium is guaranteeing a world first - a plant-based plastic to match PET, (polyethylene terephthalate) which is utilized to make most beverages bottles.
The new item is called PEF (polyethylene furanoate) and is said to deliver a third less emanations than PET.
The unrefined substance is gotten from wheat and corn. I've tasted it and it's very much like eating sugar.There's a frisson of fervor about this leap forward.
Be that as it may, can we just be real, bioplastics are coming from an exceptionally low base. They represent around 1-2% of the plastics business.
Likewise, rivalry for the land used to develop the unrefined components for PEF jugs will increment as ranchers attempt to take care of individuals in a future universe of lethal heatwaves.
The United Nations has guaranteed a settlement to limit the creation of plastic - yet legislatures are lingering behind the speed of environment change.Aluminium is the remainder of our five fundamental producers - however it delivers essentially less CO2 than concrete or steel.
That is part of the way on the grounds that the energy expected to deliver aluminum from bauxite rock is immense to the point that significant firms have found where sustainable power is copious and modest, in spots like Iceland, with its energy from geothermal and hydropower.
The business additionally expresses over 95% of the aluminum created is reused on the grounds that it's so important. However, even that requires high temperatures - along these lines, in Dortmund, Germany, they're reviving a creation that is over 100 years of age.
A machine takes in aluminum chips, then, at that point, warms them and packs them however a kind of goliath toothpaste spout, to create a container of re-shaped aluminum - for a portion of the outflows of typical reusing.
Any place you look, advancements like this are assisting firms with decreasing emanations. Yet, here's the difficulty - the innovations are not being grown anywhere close to quickly enough to meet the worldwide objective of nearly splitting CO2 by 2030.
The most serious issue for this multitude of enterprises is the lack of clean power from sustainable sources to drive production lines as well as vehicles and our homes.
Prof Julian Allwood from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, summarizes it by saying: "So large numbers of us might want to have an answer in view of imagining another innovation. Be that as it may, sadly creating it isn't the issue.
"What makes a difference is the speed at which we can increase things. You can draw out another telephone and sell it rapidly yet you can't draw out another power station rapidly, so the arrangements we really want must be essentially founded on advancements that as of now exist - and about doing things any other way.
"Since these materials [paper, steel, concrete, plastic and aluminium] have been made in such high volumes - and have been so modest - we've utilized them inefficiently."
Prof Allwood says he's hopeful we can in any case quiet environmental change - yet cautions that in ongoing we should track down approaches to utilizing less material.