24 Jul 09 -
WITH the rainy season over in the Kanto region, high summer is now under way. In the sekki, a traditional Asian almanac that divides the solar year into 24 segments of about two weeks each, taisho or "big heat" arrives on July...
24 Jul 09 -
ONE million Effective Microorganisms (EM) mudballs will be thrown into polluted rivers in Penang on August 9 in a move to resuscitate aquatic life. State Youth, Sports, Women, Family and Community Development Committee chairman Lydia Ong...
24 Jul 09 -
LIKE most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá's Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot: a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long...
3 Jul 09 -
AUSTRALIA's favourite whale has been spotted on its annual journey from the frigid waters of Antarctica to breeding grounds in the tropical warmth of far north Queensland. The progress of a rare white humpback, nicknamed Migaloo, has...
3 Jul 09 -
THE world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand. The goal set by United Nations parties under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)...
3 Jul 09 -
EUROPE's leading food safety agency paved the way on Tuesday for the EU to renew its authorisation for a genetically modified maize made by Monsanto, the only biotech crop as yet commercially grown in Europe. Scientists at the European...
3 Jul 09 -
WIND power generation is expected to be a clean and environmentally friendly natural energy source, but a new kind of environmental problem has surfaced as infrasonic waves caused by windmills are suspected of causing health problems for...
12 Jun 09 -
ONE of the biggest threats to the environment, experts say, still remains a mystery to the public. Soil pollution is a hidden danger, albeit one just as deep-rooted as air and water contamination. But in comparison, it is the biggest...
12 Jun 09 -
THE Kinta Nature Park in Batu Gajah with the largest heronry in the country is in danger of being destroyed unless proper management is implemented fast by the Perak Government. Already, the RM600,000 tax payers' money spent by the...
12 Jun 09 -
NEARLY 96 per cent of all Beijing open food markets breach the ban on plastic bags, according to a survey by a none governmental organisation, Global Village (GV). GV released its survey's results on June 2 this year to mark the first...
