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We Would Like To Wish All Our Volunteers, Partners..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia We would like to wish all our volunteers, partners, families and friends a HAPPY and FULFILLING Chinese New Year! 🏮 May this New Year brings immense Joy, Peace and Happiness to you!...

Feb 4, 2019 0

My Mother Always Taught Us That If People Dont Agr..   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...

Feb 4, 2019 0

Wetlands Are A Natural Solution To Climate Change…   Roots & Shoots Malaysia WETLANDS ARE A NATURAL SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 🌿 “We can all contribute to reversing the loss of wetlands, so that we continue to benefit from the critical services they provide to...

Feb 2, 2019 0

Malaysia Rated One Of The World’s Worst For Plasti..   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...

Feb 2, 2019 0

When Farmers Go Vegan: The Science Behind Changing..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “A farmer was recently on the road to the abattoir when he changed direction and drove his trailer full of lambs 200 miles to an animal sanctuary instead. Sivalingam Vasanthakumar, 60, from...

Jan 31, 2019 0

When Farmers Go Vegan: The Science Behind Changing..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “A farmer was recently on the road to the abattoir when he changed direction and drove his trailer full of lambs 200 miles to an animal sanctuary instead. Sivalingam Vasanthakumar, 60, from...

Jan 31, 2019 0

Find A Balance Between Economy And Environment: Ma..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “Protecting the environment and economic development are not “mutually exclusive,” and world leaders should think about creating a regulatory framework to achieve both, says Yeo Bee...

Jan 30, 2019 0

The Way We Eat Is Killing Us – And The Planet | Fe..   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...

Jan 28, 2019 0

The ‘World’s Loneliest Frog’ Finally Has A Mate   Roots & Shoots Malaysia We love happy endings. “The “world’s loneliest frog,” once thought to be the last of its species, now has a girlfriend after scientists in Bolivia trekked to a remote...

Jan 25, 2019 0

Analysis Warns Of Lack Of Progress On 2020 Global ..   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...

Jan 24, 2019 0

Malaysia Set To Lose Biodiversity As Species Go Ex..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “In WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 released in October last year, the Living Planet Index (a measure of the state of the world’s biological diversity) recorded an overall decline...

Jan 23, 2019 0

David Attenborough Tells Davos: ‘The Garden Of Ede..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “The Holocene has ended. The Garden of Eden is no more. We have changed the world so much that scientists say we are in a new geological age: the Anthropocene, the age of humans,” he...

Jan 22, 2019 0

World’s Loneliest Snail Dies, And A Species Goes E..   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...

Jan 18, 2019 0

Meat Is Not Good For The Planet, People, Eat Less ..   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,...

Jan 16, 2019 0

In Memory Of Species Declared Extinct In 2018 — Pl..   Roots & Shoots Malaysia “Too many species are on the verge of disappearing forever, illustrating the extensive damage our own species has wrought on the ecosystems that sustain us. At the same time, however, each of...

Jan 15, 2019 0

Global Warming Of Oceans Equivalent To An Atomic B..   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...

Jan 10, 2019 0

Endangered Javan Rhino At Risk From Tsunami   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...

Jan 4, 2019 0

Rainforests: Storylines To Watch In 2019   Roots & Shoots Malaysia From Mongabay.com “2018 wasn’t a great year for tropical rainforests, with major conservation setbacks in Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, and the United States coming...

Jan 4, 2019 0

How Mountains Of U.S. Plastic Waste Ended Up In Ma..   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...

Jan 3, 2019 0

Why Eating Less Meat Is The Best Thing You Can Do ..   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...

Jan 2, 2019 0