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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 air quality in Malaysia is reported as the API (Air Pollutant Index) or in Malay as IPU (Indeks Pencemaran Udara). Four of the index's pollutant components (i.e., carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide) are reported in ppmv but PM 2.5 particulate matter is reported in μg/m 3.
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]
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.
Sungailiat, also known as Liet-kong in Hakka, is a town and district (kecamatan) of Bangka Regency, in the Bangka-Belitung province of Indonesia.It is also the regency seat.
Kampong Sungai Hanching (literally: 'Urine-Reeking River Village') is a village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei. The population was 2,987 in 2016. [ 2 ] It is one of the villages within Mukim Berakas 'B' .
Groups of communities live along the rivers of Kinabatangan, Labuk, Kudat, Pitas and Lahad Datu. [1] The name "Orang Sungei" is a collective term that was first coined during the colonial British rule for communities living along the Kinabatangan River . [ 2 ]