The Malaysian State of Johor has rejected almost 30 per cent of applications to build data centres to ensure the conservation of local resources and regulate one of the largest markets in Southeast Asia. Last June, Johor set up an ad hoc committee to vet applications to build data processing centres that house the IT Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Pollution’
Johor rejects some requests for new data centres to protect the environment
Thursday, November 21st, 2024How to make all your food waste disappear
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Composting is not for everyone. I realise this when I go home to visit my parents in Florida, or almost anywhere outside states, such as Vermont, that mandate it. Curbside pickup is rare. Many view it as a chore. Even for people like me who enjoy transforming leftovers into rocket fuel for their garden, composting Read more
9 million people die annually from overlooked pollution
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Despite advances in cleaner water and safer indoor cooking, pollution remains the world’s leading environmental risk factor for disease and premature death, responsible for one in every six deaths, or 9 million premature deaths annually, according to a new report in The Lancet. The report finds the majority of pollution-related deaths today come from what Read more
Pope addresses world oil exec’s on energy-pollution challenge
Monday, June 11th, 2018
Pope Francis told world oil executives meeting at a two-day conference at the Vatican that transiting to less-polluting energy sources “is a challenge of epochal proportions”. The two-day conference was a follow-up to Francis’s 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’. The encyclical calls for an energy policy “aimed at averting disastrous climate changes that Read more
The throwaway culture spreading waste worldwide
Monday, March 20th, 2017
In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which they would then casually toss overboard when done. That was OK, because the leaves decayed and the fish ate the scraps. But in the past decade, he said, while plastic Read more
World’s tallest church has a down to earth problem
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016The spire atop Ulm Minster, the world’s tallest church, juts 530 feet into the air above the German city for which it is named. In its 639th year, though, the Gothic structure could be laid low by a gross and unfortunate hazard: Too many revelrous Germans are ducking into the church’s alcoves to relieve their Read more
Toxic waste wipes out fishing in four Vietnam provinces
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Church aid agencies are playing their part to support people in Vietnam whose livelihoods have been devastated by industrial marine pollution. On April 6, dead fish began washing ashore along 200 kilometres of the coastal provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue. Nearly three months later, authorities announced that toxic Read more
No communion for polluters
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Archbishop of Naples Crescenzio Sepe didn’t mince words when speaking about the issue of pollution on Wednesday, going so far as to say, “Those who pollute are not in the grace of God and can not take communion.” His remarks came in the wake of revelations that local mafia had buried cancer-causing toxic waste around Read more
Dumping mining waste in sea harmful but not illegal
Friday, July 29th, 2011
A group of landowners in Papua New Guinea say they will appeal against a court’s decision not to ban a nickel mine from dumping mining waste into the sea. Papua New Guinea’s National Court has rejected an application for a permanent halt to the use of deep sea waste disposal by the 1.5 billion dollar Read more
Concert to save Earth
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
In a bid to portray the message of saving our environment, 550 students of St Joseph’s Secondary School in Suva will take to the stage in their annual concert next week to save earth. The students performed their first dress rehearsal to parents and teachers at the school hall at Waimanu Road yesterday. Principal Sister Read more