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High deforestation rates in Malaysian states hit by flooding
2015-01-19 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Five states hard hit by flooding last month in Malaysia had high rates of forest loss in recent years, bolstering assertions that environmental degradation may have worsened the disaster. According to satellite data from researchers led by the University of Maryland's Matt Hansen and displayed on Global Forest Watch, the states of Johor, Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, and Terengganu each lost more than 10 percent of their forest cover between 2001 and 2012. Loss was greatest in areas with dense tree...
Rebuild Malaysian East Coast factoring in global warming
2015-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Malaysian Insider: It is important that when we rebuild, we do not rush in and focus all our effort and resources on repairing and getting everything back to things as they were before the flood. Instead, we need to rebuild with a new mindset, else we will fall into the same routine year-in year-out without getting wiser. Other countries around the world are also facing the same problem, they are having repeated frequency of floods, cyclone or forest fire. Previously, a natural disaster occurs once in a few...
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Former Malaysian chief: legal logging also 'destructive' forests
2014-11-30 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is calling for limits on legal logging in the Southeast Asian nation. In an oped published today in the Malaysia Mail Online, the long-serving ruler called legal logging "destructive". "We are reading a lot about illegal logging and illegal workers. It is right that illegal logging should be stopped and illegal workers arrested and deported," he wrote. "But what about legal logging? They may be legal but they are also destroying even more...
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A Malaysian snail goes extinct with 22,000+ other species on the brink
2014-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star: Fishing, logging, mining, agriculture and other activities to satisfy our growing appetite for resources are pushing wild species towards extinction. A species of Malaysian microsnail has been declared extinct in the latest Red List of Threatened Species released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Plectostoma sciaphilum, known only from a single limestone hill in Pahang, has disappeared as the outcrop which it inhabited, Bukit Panching near Kuantan, was quarried...
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Malaysian Navy's KD Perantau vessel sinks during refurbishment
2014-11-20 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Royal Malaysian Navy's (RMN) hydrography vessel, KD Perantau, sank after springing a leak during refit work at the Boustead Naval Shipyard in Lumut, Perak.
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