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Roots & Shoots Malaysia News & Blogs
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My Mother Always Taught Us That If People Dont Agr..
4th Feb 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
“My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.” – Jane Goodall
There are times when we take the support and love we get from our family for granted. However, their encouragement and advice are often the things that made us who we are today. This February, under the theme of ‘Love’, we promp...
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Malaysia Rated One Of The World’s Worst For Plasti..
2nd Feb 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"One badly-hit town is Jenjarom, in the Kuala Langat area near Klang, Selangor. There, burning plastic – which can release toxic dioxins and carbon monoxide – has caused residents to have difficulty breathing, persistent coughing, fatigue and itchy, watery eyes"
"One Jenjarom resident, Lay Peng Pua, collected water samples from dumpsites with chemical-grade gloves; the water contained toxic heavy metals."
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The Way We Eat Is Killing Us – And The Planet | Fe..
28th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"The global food system is responsible for up to 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions, the livestock sector on its own accounting for about half of that total or 14.5%. The modern western way of eating is also making very large numbers of people fat and sick as other parts of the world adopt it. Diet-related diseases now cause roughly 11 million deaths a year as preventable cancers, heart disease and strokes, obesity and diabetes have spread along with our way of eating. More than 800 million p...
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Analysis Warns Of Lack Of Progress On 2020 Global ..
24th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
The bad:
"Removing coal from the global energy mix is taking too long, too many forests are still being destroyed, and fossil fuel subsidies are ongoing despite their distorting effect on the market, a study has found.
There has also been insufficient progress in agriculture to stop harmful practices that increase carbon dioxide production, and heavy industry is not doing enough to use energy more efficiently, according to analysis carried out by the World Resources Institute thinktank.
Witho...
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World's Loneliest Snail Dies, And A Species Goes E..
18th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"George, a Hawaiian tree snail—and the last known member of the species Achatinella apexfulva—died on New Year’s Day.
George was born in a captive breeding facility at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in the early 2000s, and soon after, the rest of his kin died. That’s when he got his name—after Lonesome George, the Pinta Island tortoise who was also the last of his kind.
For over a decade, researchers searched in vain for another member of the species for George to mate with, to no...
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Meat Is Not Good For The Planet, People, Eat Less ..
16th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
Avoiding meat is one of the most significant ways to reduce your impact on Earth.
"Our planet is actually like a giant meat farm now. Seriously. There’s us people, 7.7 billion of us, and a ton of livestock animals, 70 billion or so, being fattened for our plates. Plus, most of the world’s agricultural land is being used for livestock, for grazing or to grow feed.
Wildlife? The numbers just don’t compare. Only 4% of all mammals are in the wild. Consider: there are perhaps 300 tigers left...
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Global Warming Of Oceans Equivalent To An Atomic B..
10th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. The vast amount of energy being added to the oceans drives sea-level rise and enables hurricanes and typhoons to become more intense."
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Endangered Javan Rhino At Risk From Tsunami
4th Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"The Javan rhinos are the most threatened of the five rhino species in the world - and have been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
They were once found in northeast India and across South East Asia but their population was quickly depleted as a result of poaching, habitat destruction through agriculture, among other factors.
...today only 67 exist in the Ujung Kulon National Park, which was hit by last week's tsunami."
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How Mountains Of U.S. Plastic Waste Ended Up In Ma..
3rd Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"How scrap from California ended up in a junkyard 8,500 miles away, broken down manually by workers earning $10 a day, is the story of the reshaping of the global garbage and recycling system.
For three decades the United States and other industrialized nations have shipped most of their plastic waste overseas — primarily to China, where cheap labor and voracious factories dismantled the scrap and turned it into new plastic goods.
But 12 months ago, China banned nearly all plastic waste impo...
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Why Eating Less Meat Is The Best Thing You Can Do ..
2nd Jan 2019, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"The mighty hoofprint of farmed meat isn’t just inefficient. Deforestation to make way for livestock, along with methane emissions from cows and fertilizer use, creates as much greenhouse gas emissions as all the world’s cars, trucks and airplanes. Meat rearing practices risk mass extinctions of other animals, as well as spawn significant pollution of streams, rivers and, ultimately, the ocean."
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Dr. Jane Goodall's Most Inspiring Quotes From 2018
31st Dec 2018, by Roots & Shoots Malaysia
"With the Oxford Word of the Year 2018 being toxic, and its use to reflect the passing year as a whole, one can’t help but to feel hopeless. But in times of hopelessness, Dr. Jane Goodall uses her voice and words to ignite a specific goal or plan of action, which is what we all need to direct our focus in the next year! With that being said, we’ve gathered some of our favorite Jane quotes from 2018 to lead us into a more hopeful 2019 to help make the Oxford Word of the Year 2019 “Hope”!"
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