PETALING JAYA: Hotspots in Riau, Sumatra, have shot up to 175. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite images yesterday showed a massive increase in the number of hotspots detected from last Thursday. On Thursday, NOAA satellites detected between 25 and 50 hotspots in Sumatra and between five and 37 in Kalimantan, Sabah…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Forestry Department is organising a scientific expedition to the western part of the Maliau Range at the Ulu Tungud Forest Reserve in Central Sabah, in collaboration with TSH (Forestry) Sdn Bhd and the Global Environment Centre (GEC), on Aug 9-20. Partly funded by the Keindaren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF) of Japan,…
WHEN Dr Kalithasan Kailasam asked a group of students at an environment camp for an example of a clean river, they pointed to a picture of a soothing stream in a jungle. They did not realise that the other photographs of brown and murky waters were also from the same source that is Sungai Pencala….
Treated wastewater from the proposed landfill in Bukit Tagar will be channelled into the Raja Musa peat swamp forest that feeds some of Selangor’s most important rivers. Experts who have studied the project’s Environmental Impact Assessment are questioning the move as the wastewater could reach Sungai Selangor which supplies 60 per cent of the water…
A freshwater fish species from South America, released into our rivers by fish breeders and aquarists, may pose a threat to local fish species and the ecosystem. Thankfully, it’s not the dreaded man-eating piranha. The fish is popularly known in the fish hobbyist circle as ikan bandaraya because it does a good job cleaning up…
KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (Bernama) — There has been a lot of talk and excitement about biotechnology being the next wave of industrial wealth to be tapped by the corporate sector as well as governments, and Malaysia is no exception in pursuing the same trend. With the launch of Bio Valley and the wooing of…
Garbage-choked Sungai Pencala is a sad reflection of how Malaysians treat their rivers and lakes. Now, however, they have been given a chance to redeem themselves, ELIZABETH JOHN writes. THE easiest thing to do when something goes wrong is to point a finger. Preferably at anyone but ourselves. Nothing exemplifies this better than the troubles…
THE Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ) will commit to a programme that will ensure the cleanliness of the Kelana Jaya lakes. In a tour of the lakes recently, MPPJ president Datuk Abdul Karim Munisar said the Global Environment Centre (GCE) and Friends of Kelana Jaya Lake have identified the pollution sources and the council would…
KUALA LUMPUR: The destruction of peat land is likely to increase unless effective preventive measures are put in place now, a scientist warned yesterday. “Peat fires have begun in Malaysia and Indonesia again over the past week and swift action has to be taken against them,” said Faizal Parish, director of the Global Environment Centre….
WORLD-class anglers go to India’s Cauvery River in the hope of landing what may be the catch of a lifetime – the mighty Mahseer, king of the Himalayan rivers. Local entrepreneur Sharifuddin Budin, 43, believes they should come to Kelantan’s Sungai Nenggiri too, where they can find the Malaysian king of freshwater sport fish. Sleek,…
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