Pollution kills 9 million in 2019
PARIS: Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published yesterday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air and the “horrifying” toll of lead poisoning. Human-created waste in the air, water and soil rarely kills people immediately, but causes instead heart disease, […]
Indonesia court finds president negligent over pollution in landmark case
JAKARTA, Indonesia: In a landmark victory for Indonesian environment campaigners, a court on Thursday ordered President Joko Widodo to clean up Jakarta’s notorious air pollution, ruling that the leader and other top officials had been negligent in protecting citizens. The capital and its surroundings form a megacity of about 30 million people, which routinely ranks […]
Water supply in Sibu affected as water board minimises intake
SIBU: Sibu Water Board (SWB) is unable to extract water from the Rejang River due to high siltation that had been caused by a logjam in the upper reaches of Baleh River in Kapit Division yesterday. In a notice to its customers on Facebook, SWB told that its Salim and Bukit Lima treatment plants were […]
Coldplay adopts Interceptor 005 to clean Malaysia’s river
KUALA LUMPUR: British band Coldplay has yet to perform in Malaysia but it is about to treat the country to something even greater — by sponsoring a watercraft that removes plastic trash from our rivers. The band has long been proponents of green initiatives and is now looking to stop garbage from reaching the ocean […]
Carbon pollution inequality?
Richest 1%’s emissions twice that of poorest 50% PARIS: The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world’s population — 3.1 billion people — new research showed. Despite a sharp decrease in carbon emissions due to the pandemic, the world remains […]
Is Mother Nature striking back?
By M. Govind Nair KUALA LUMPUR: Is Mother Nature striking back? As Covid-19 continues to ravage the world, one gets the uncanny feeling that Mother Nature is beginning to reclaim what she has been losing to man over the years — fresh air, clear waters, natural vegetation and wildlife. One tends to ask whether the […]
Are we doing enough for our environment?
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. Sitting Bull, Indian leader who led his people against United States government policies Our air filled with the smell of burning plastic, toxic dumpsites, drains and rivers […]
