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The 2019 Kim Kim River toxic pollution is a water pollution incident that occurred on 7 March 2019 caused by illegal chemical waste dumping at the Kim Kim River in Pasir Gudang of Johor in Malaysia.
The Pulai River (Malay: Sungai Pulai) is a river in Johor, Malaysia. It runs from Mount Pulai in Kulai District until Tanjung Pelepas, draining into the Tebrau Straits. At its mouth lies the single largest seagrass bed in Malaysia, [2] which extends all the way to Pulau Merambong. Sungai Pulai is also a mangrove forest reserve. [3]
The global sulphur limit (outside SECA's) dropped from an allowed 3.5% sulphur in marine fuels to 0.5%. [11] This will significantly improve the air quality in many populated coastal and port areas, which will prevent over 100,000 early deaths each year, and many more cases of asthma in these regions and cities.
Within the sciences, the word "contamination" can take on a variety of subtle differences in meaning, whether the contaminant is a solid or a liquid, [3] as well as the variance of environment the contaminant is found to be in. [2] A contaminant may even be more abstract, as in the case of an unwanted energy source that may interfere with a process. [2]
A state of emergency was announced in 2005 at Port Klang as the Air Pollution Index (API) went above 500. [1] Malaysia has worked with the Indonesian authorities to help curb peat fires. [ 2 ] Malaysia and Indonesia, together with other members of the ASEAN community, signed the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution in 2002 as a ...
As of 2021, state-of-the-art CMIP6 models estimate that total cooling from the currently present aerosols is between 0.1 °C (0.18 °F) to 0.7 °C (1.3 °F); [131] the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report uses the best estimate of 0.5 °C (0.90 °F), [132] with the uncertainty mainly caused by contradictory research on the impacts of aerosols of clouds.
Sungai Mati in Tangkak District. Sungai Mati ('dead river' in Malay; Chinese: 利丰港) is a small town in Serom, Tangkak District, Johor, Malaysia. Sungai Mati was named in such a way (dead river) due to its nature of being an ox-bow lake. It formed or break away from the main river of Muar River. The "breakaway" was caused by a massive flood ...
Sungai Air Tawar is a state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly since 1974. It has been represented by Member of the State Executive Council (EXCO) Rizam Ismail of Barisan Nasional (BN) since 2018.