Is sustainable development achievable?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY DR CHEE SU YIN TO SOME FOLKS, the words sustainable and development can never exist side by side. Their essence is on opposite sides of the spectrum. A juxtaposition. The term “sustainable” seeks to exhort nature while “development” is usually associated with destroying it. You cannot develop and conserve at the same time. Surely when […]
Watch The Green Planet and admit ‘mea culpa’ to climate change
Reading Time: 6 minutesBBC’s latest five-part natural history stunner, The Green Planet, subtly tells the climate change story through the lives of plants and trees. IT was in 1975, that the world first heard of ‘global warming’ which is today a hot button buzzword spoken by scientists and the common citizen but only pretentiously uttered by politicians at climate summits – as […]
Study: Children are vulnerable to climate change
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Mohamad Salleh Sulieman CHILDREN proved to be the most vulnerable group due to the impact of climate change, according to a new report.They are also often overlooked in the design of climate laws and policies, the study by UNICEF, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) found. The study focused on children […]
UN Climate Conference Calls for Urgent Action in Agriculture
Reading Time: < 1 minuteURGENT action and innovative strategies in agri-food systems are needed to eliminate hunger by the end of the decade. This is according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General, QU Dongyu, during the Sustainable Innovation Forum at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) running from October 31 to November 12, 2021, […]
Chart the right path of action against global warming: WWF
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Protecting the environment and planet is everyone’s responsibility’ PETALING JAYA: The National Environment Day passed by silently on Oct 21 without much fanfare. Yet it is an important “Day” as matters pertaining to the impact of global warming need urgent attention and action. The “Day” also presents Malaysians the golden opportunity to commit themselves to chart […]
Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 Goes to Three Laureates for Climate Work
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three Laureates “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems” and whose work improved the understanding of the Earth’s changing climate. The announcement was made on October 5, 2021. Syukuro Manabe demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased […]
IPCC Report: Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released on August 9, 2021, reveals that many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of […]
FAO Director-General tells G20: to have healthy food, we need healthy environment
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today called on G20 Environment Ministers to step up joint efforts, increase investment and work more closely with FAO for game-changing impacts on the planet. Qu made the call at the G20 Ministerial Meeting on the Environment, which discussed solutions […]
Nature-based solutions for climate resilient coastlines in Malaysia
Reading Time: 7 minutesBY DR CHEE SU YIN GLOBAL temperature rise, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, glacial retreats, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and extreme events are standing out as an compelling evidence for rapid climate change and there is no dispute that climate is changing. This, coupled with the relentless drive for economic growth along with the […]
NTU scientists establish new records of Singapore’s sea-level history, going back to 10,000 years ago
Reading Time: 3 minutesCLIMATE SCIENTISTS at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) have extended the known record of Singapore’s sea-level to almost 10,000 years ago, providing a more robust dataset to aid future predictions of sea-level rise. One of the main challenges in researching climate change is to reconstruct its history over thousands of years. To have […]