Environment
Carbon tax delayed due to Middle East uncertainties, says Arthur
KUALA LUMPUR: A carbon tax has been delayed from being rolled out this year pending review against the current geopolitical and economic uncertainties, says Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Datuk Arthur Joseph Kurup.
Ecowatch: How achievable is zero greenhouse gas emissions?
Many countries, including Malaysia, have announced ambitious plans to cut emissions – but how will we do it?
Ecowatch: A predictable disaster looms
A severe El Niño weather cycle will arrive soon – and its high temperatures are due to the choices we humans have made.
Ecowatch: Working in the age of heat
With a brutal El Niño forecasted to begin soon, employers and workers will have to rethink how, when, and where work gets when the mercury hits the heights.
Electric motorcycles with sidecars deployed in Melaka to support waste collection, public cleaning
MELAKA: Five electric motorcycles fitted with sidecars have been deployed around the Historic City as part of efforts to strengthen Melaka's aspiration of becoming a Green State by 2035.
Ecowatch: The world is getting very thirsty
Water stress is already at an alarming level, and the situation is only going to get worse as the planet heats up.
Ecowatch: You cannot burn peatland. Ever
Fire in soil that has a carbon store that took thousands of years to accumulate would release all that carbon into the atmosphere in just minutes.
Ecowatch: Small parts, big impact – Poachers are upping their smuggling game
Illegal animal parts are increasingly being passed off as innocuous items – like 'cake' made from the bones of a tiger or 'chips' made from pangolin scales – to make it easier to get them past customs checks.
Ecowatch: It's only April and Malaysia is already burning up
The country has had more fires in the first quarter of the year than all of 2025.
