Environment
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0EnvironmentMalaysia Plants 100 Million Trees Ahead of 2025 Goal
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim marked the milestone with a ceremonial planting of Malaysia’s national tree, the merbau, at Parliament. It’s a whole...
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0EnvironmentCould a Growing Love of Durian Lead to Higher Coffee Prices?
A perfect storm of factors, which surprisingly includes durian, has led to a record-setting spike in the price of coffee beans. Can...
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0ASEAN NewsIndonesian Communities Successfully Restore Human-Devastated Coral Reefs
This community-based approach to restoration, combined with an ingenious device, has fully revived coral reefs decimated by dynamite fishing in Indonesia. An...
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0CommunityHandy App Makes Recycling in Petaling Jaya Easier
The mobile app was recently launched by the PJ City Council to enhance and improve community recycling efforts. Residents in Petaling Jaya...
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0EnvironmentThe World’s Wettest Countries Have Been Mapped – Did Malaysia Make the List?
Results from an exercise in charting the world’s wettest and driest countries probably won’t surprise anyone. From the lush rainforests of South...
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0EnvironmentHair Today, Grown Tomorrow: Community Gardening with a Twist
You may have heard of Nateskin, Malaysia’s home-grown company featuring innovative grooming solutions for men, but now they’re getting into the sustainability...
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0EnvironmentLess Noise, More Action: How to Walk the Talk for a Greener Future
Putting words into action and putting the ‘sustain’ in sustainability, Hard Rock Hotel Desaru Coast once again shows us how it’s done...
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0EnvironmentMcDonald’s Market-Testing New Strawless Lids in U.S. but Malaysia Already Has Them
The sippy cup-style lids are part of a concerted effort to reduce the number of single-use plastics like straws in fast food...
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0EnvironmentSingapore’s Current Dengue Outbreak Foretells an Ominous Climate Change Reality
Add another side effect of climate change to the list of unwelcome things that we can look forward to as the planet...
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0EnvironmentThe World Watches as Brazil’s Amazon Rapidly Disappears in Real Time
Brazil’s unforgiving destruction of the Amazon rainforest nearly doubles its previous peak, hitting an all-time high in April 2022. Malaysia has for...
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0EnvironmentSustainability: More than Just a Buzzword
Hidden in plain sight right there in the name is the key to sustainability’s success: sustaining it. At one Malaysian hotel, it’s...
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0EnvironmentSurprising Secondary Savers: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is one of the most urgent messages of our time, as the world has apparently hit the Point of...
