18/10/2010 06:25
A WAYANG kulit show was the highlight at a recent exhibition focusing on climate change.
The performance was narrated by 17-year-old Jes Ebrahim Izaidin, who conveyed the message of doing our part for the environment before it is too late.
The Shadow Puppet Show titled Empty Earth was...
18/10/2010 06:21
Investors led by technology giant Google on Tuesday announced a five billion-dollar project to power the US East Coast with wind from the Atlantic Ocean, in an ambitious bid to spur alternative energy.
The project would set up offshore wind turbines and a new transmission grid stretching 350...
18/10/2010 06:17
Environmental remediation can take what feels like forever, and entirely removing an oil sheen from water is especially tough. An advanced technological process involving microbubbles could do the trick.
Andy Hong, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Utah,...
18/10/2010 06:13
Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks...
18/10/2010 05:56
If demand for meat, poultry, eggs and dairy keeps pace with projections, by 2050 the environmental consequences of livestock production could be responsible for 70 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions considered a safe threshold for the planet, new research says.
This leaves little...
18/10/2010 05:55
Some clouds help cool the Earth, but other clouds help keep Earth warm – in part depending on how high up they are in our atmosphere. That’s according to Steven Platnick, a satellite researcher with NASA. He studies clouds and how they connect with Earth’s climate. He said that low, fluffy...
18/10/2010 05:52
If water vapor and clouds account for roughly 75 percent of the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere, then why all of the fuss about carbon dioxide? New experiments by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York produce a dramatic answer to this question.
Andrew...
18/10/2010 05:50
MIRI: The flooding of South-East Asia’s largest dam, the Bakun Dam, in Belaga district has begun.
Developer and manager Sarawak Hidro, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated, dammed up the Balui River diversion tunnels to start the process of flooding 69,000ha of...
18/10/2010 05:48
KUALA LUMPUR: Climate change will continue to be a priority agenda for Malaysia despite the global financial crisis, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He said the adoption of low carbon emission and environment-friendly technologies was the new economic driver in the country’s...
18/10/2010 05:43
KUCHING: A team of investigators from Korean Trade Commission (KTC) is in Sarawak for a month-long probe into allegations that eight Sarawak plywood suppliers were dumping their products in South Korea.
The four-man team, which met state-owned Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp (STIDC)...
