In order to lower the carbon emissions that lead to global warming, Malaysia is considering the deployment of market-based carbon pricing policies such as carbon trading and a carbon tax. This paper, which is based on a memorandum submitted to the Malaysian government, presents a critical assessment of these policies …
Malaysia closed schools in several states and the capital Kuala Lumpur on Monday due to choking smoke from Indonesian slash-and-burn farming that has smothered much of Southeast Asia in smog for weeks. Malaysia has repeatedly ordered students to stay home as a health precaution as the current smog problem -- …
With the World Rivers Day just around the corner, the World Wide Fund (WWF) Malaysia is calling on Malaysians to place serious attention on the issue of water pollution in the country. WWF Malaysia CEO Datuk Dr Dionysius Sharma said the issue had become a serious problem in Malaysia and …
JAKARTA – A worsening haze across northern Indonesia, neighboring Singapore and parts of Malaysia on Tuesday forced some schools to close and airlines to delay flights, while Indonesia ordered a crackdown against lighting fires to clear forested land. Southeast Asia has suffered for years from annual bouts of smog caused …
Smog-affected ASEAN countries, especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, should allocate up to US$10 billion to cope with unending forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan, a scientist said. “The cost is equal to the estimated total economic losses resulting from the recent smog,” Herry Purnomo, a scientist at CIFOR and professor …
Smog from forest fires in Indonesia on Tuesday prompted the cancellation of flights and warnings for people to stay indoors, while pushing air quality to unhealthy levels in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia. The thick haze came from blazes on western Sumatra island and the Indonesian part of Borneo island, which …
The rate of poverty in Sarawak dropped to below one per cent (0.9%) last year, said Malaysia's chief statistician Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hasan. The poverty rate reduction in 2012 was 2.4 per cent, he said while launching a statistics transformation seminar organised by the state Statistics Department here Tuesday. …
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Haze at an unhealthy level was recorded as at 11 am today in Seri Manjung, Perak, according to the portal of the Department of Environment. It said that the Air Pollutants Index was 101 in Seri Manjung. Forty-one other areas in the country had …
The air quality in Tanjung Malim, Perak recorded unhealthy Air Pollutants Index (API) reading of 101 Tuesday afternoon. According to the Department of Environment (DOE), as at 3 pm, that was the only area with unhealthy API while 37 other areas had moderate API readings. In the federal capital, moderate …
KOTA KINABALU, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- Four major towns in Sabah recorded a moderate air pollutant index (API) reading as of 9 am today. The Environment Department stated in its website that the API reading for Tawau was 59, while Kota Kinabalu, 56, Keningau, 53 and Sandakan, 51. Duty-free island …
The Sumatran rhinoceros is not plentiful on the planet: In fact, the Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is down to maybe 100 in the wild and nine in captivity, and most of them live in Indonesia. Scientists have recently concluded that that rhino is extinct in Malaysia, and they published their conclusions in …
In 1996, the global HIV community gathered in Vancouver, Canada, for the XI International AIDS Conference and shared the clear evidence that triplecombination antiretroviral treatment held the power to stem the tide of deaths from AIDS. The HIV treatment era had begun. As we gathered again in Vancouver in July, …
Tensions are rising over a large proposed dam that would flood six rural villages—and their microhydro systems—to provide power and water to cities. The villages draw on the nearby Papar River's current to generate enough power to run lights, refrigerators, and phone-chargers for up to 50 households. The systems, dubbed …
Plantation-associated drainage of Southeast Asian peatlands has accelerated in recent years. Draining exposes the upper peat layer to oxygen, leading to elevated decomposition rates and net soil carbon losses. Empirical studies indicate positive relationships between long-term water table (WT) depth and soil carbon loss rate in peatlands. These correlations potentially …
Drainage of peatlands to cultivate oil palm in Malaysia's Rajang Delta is causing land subsidence that will bring large-scale floods in coming decades, making the land unusable, a problem also expected to affect Indonesia, researchers warned. Substantial areas of the river delta in Sarawak, eastern Malaysia, are already experiencing drainage …
The process of managing the blood bag that is received from the blood donation events needs a proper and systematic management. The blood bag must be handled with care and treated thoroughly as it is related to someone's life. The development of Web-based Blood Bank Management System (BBMS) is proposed …
Kundasang (Malaysia), June 6 : The strong earthquake that jolted Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu left at least 11 persons dead and another eight missing on Southeast Asia’s highest peak, a government official said today. “As at noon time, 11 bodies have been recovered (2 identified) and eight persons are still missing,” …
A new trade agreement being negotiated between 12 countries has come under fire from health campaigners who say it will push up drug prices and weaken health services.
France’s ecology minister, Ségolène Royal, has rankled the company that makes Nutella by urging the public to stop eating its chocolate hazelnut spread, saying it contributes to deforestation. “We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation that also leads to global warming. We should stop …
The death toll from an earthquake that trapped scores of climbers on Malaysia’s highest peak rose to 16 Monday as rescuers searched for two Singaporean climbers still missing. A magnitude-5.9 earthquake Friday sent rocks and boulders raining down the trekking routes on 4,095-meter-high (13,435-feet-high) Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state …
Alfredo Quatro says we must defend mangrove forests – which protect our shorelines and diverse marine life – against man-made development Mangroves are a cornucopia of life – a rainforest by the sea – surviving in inter-tidal zones of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Over the last 23 years, I have …
