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Climate change will cut water for farmers: UN
Posted by Straits Times: None Given on June 9th, 2011
Straits Times: Climate change will cut water for farmers: UN
The UN food agency on Thursday warned climate change will restrict the availability of water for farming in decades to come. THE UN food agency on Thursday warned climate change will restrict the availability of water for farming in decades to come, including in the Mediterranean region, and urged governments to take action.
A report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said climate change will reduce river runoff and aquifer recharges,...
Study shows rapid deforestation in Malaysia
Posted by Straits Times: None Given on February 1st, 2011
Straits Times: NEW satellite imagery shows Malaysia is destroying forests more than three times faster than all of Asia combined, and its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average 2 per cent of the rain forest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 per cent over the last five years. Most of...
M’sia keen to list Sabah’s Maliau Basin as heritage site
Posted by Straits Times: None Given on January 29th, 2011
Straits Times: MALAYSIA is very keen to list Sabah's Lost World, the Maliau Basin as a world heritage site.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in endorsing the state government's proposal, said that a World Heritage listing by Unesco would bring immediate world attention and interest in the 58,400-hectare untouched tropical rainforest, just slightly smaller than Singapore.
He said the heritage listing of Mount Kinabalu National Park, George Town, Gunung Mulu National Park and Malacca had seen a jump...
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