Zooplankton under serious threat from climate change
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY DR NURUL HUDA AHMAD ISHAK RISING temperatures pose a high risk to marine and coastal ecosystems. This is a well-recognised fact. More than half of the world’s marine species may be now standing on the brink of extinction by 2100. The climate and ocean are closely linked. When oceans get hotter, they can hold more […]
Higher temperatures make it difficult for fig tree pollinators
Reading Time: 2 minutesRESEARCHERS from Uppsala University and elsewhere have been studying the effect of rising temperatures on the lifespan of pollinating fig wasps. The findings show that the wasps lived much shorter lives at high temperatures, which would make it difficult for them to travel the long distances between the trees they pollinate. Fig trees are very important […]
Improving country’s food production: Issues and policy responses
Reading Time: 3 minutes BY PROF DATUK M NASIR SHAMSUDIN THE food sector in the country is facing major challenges that will persist for the next decades. These include providing sufficient food to meet the growing population and rising per capita income as well as dietary changes, eradicating hunger and food insecurity. The sector is also influenced […]
Asian agbio players convene under ISAAA/MABIC platform
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY Ts. DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN WILL working tirelessly in the laboratories result in GM crops being released into the hands of farmers, subsequently relieving their world from grappling with food insecurity? It is time for scientists to understand the invisible hands that move the needles when it comes to the approval and […]