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Nation 25 Mar 2021 On the right hand side of the Sungai Muda is Penang, while the left hand side of the river is Kedah.At the front (blue roof) is Lahat Tiang Intake for PBA along Sungai Muda (April 29,2021). - CHAN BOON KAI/The Star PUTRAJAYA: The wrangle between Kedah and Penang over Sungai Muda could be resolved by setting up a Muda River Basin Authority (MRBA), the Environment and Water Ministry has proposed. Describing the confrontation between the Penang an...

Ecosystem degradation is a major threat to livelihoods and sustainable development across the globe. Habitat loss also increases the risk of pandemics, serving to remind us of humans’ complex and delicate relationship with nature. While the origins of COVID-19 remain unclear, this is a crisis that continues to affect human health, livelihoods and economies worldwide, and threatens to overturn decades of development gains. This is certainly true for Africa. In Ethiopia and countries across sub...

Dear President Buhari, This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the ‘Giant of Africa’ does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the grotesque and irrational, the conspicuously invisible and falsely true. No war has ever taken place without a potent dose of the absurd in its mix of causes. No calamity has...

Uttarakhand flood: Scientists highlight the need to improve monitoring of glaciers Gathering baseline data will help in understanding the hydrology, geology and climate change response of Himalayan glaciers. The site of a destroyed hydroelectric power station in Raini village of Uttarakhand. | Anshree Fadnavis/ Reuters As authorities race to rescue people trapped in Uttarakhand, following a devastating landslide-induced flash flood on February 7, scientists have called for de...

Ranches, Mr. President, ranches. Let the cows eat and drink where they are born, not forced into endless dangerous treks across the country.

Southern Africa, Flash Update No.6: Tropical Storm Chalane (as of 31 December 2020) Format HIGHLIGHTS After making landfall in Muanza district, central Mozambique, in the early hours of 30 December, Tropical Storm Chalane tracked inland and entered Zimbabwe as a tropical depression. The depression has brought rains and thunderstorms to Zimbabwe and is now considered a “very weak” tropical depression by the Zimbabwean authorities. SITUATION OVERVIEW Tropical Storm Chalane, which made landfal...

Preparing for something like this? >> well, right now the most important thing is anybody from the florida keys well into the georgia coast should be paying very close attention to what happens. and any small change in the forecast at this point can have huge ramifications along the coast in three days from now. talking with the national hurricane center and others that are in there working the forecasts, there is nothing in the way of this storm that will keep it from rapidly intensifying. wind...

Watch "the movies" only on cnn. this is serious. the gulf of mexico facing a critical test, more rain and more flooding along river basins, that leads into the gulf. and this could lead into one of the biggest dead zones. >> so a dead zone is an environment that can no longer support ocean life because of low amounts of oxygen. right now, its smaller than researchers anticipated because of barry helping to churn the waters. also focusing on a tropical system. cnns meteorologist allison chincha...

Expected along the river basins that feed into the gulf of mexico today. >> and that could have an impact on the so-called dead zones in the gulf. were going to explain whats going on here. [music playing] (michelle) i know what its like to be in a financially struggling family. we had a lot of leftovers...[chuckles] i couldnt have asked for better parents, but like most people they didnt have anyone to teach them the best financial habits. so we changed that. as a financial health coach, i help...

Welcome to. its good to have you with us we begin today with what is known as the ones poll shows like these in the him and the hindu kush mountains which told the most ice in the world outside the arctic and the doctor scientists say they are and heres what might happen they could threaten your home and livelihood depending on where you live if you live in any of these areas on this map these are the bluish green which show the hindu kush region and additionally in this area thats the shading i...