5 High-Tech Ways to Make Your Home Greener

Guest post by Jewel Brookfield Here at Clean Malaysia we’ve already established the importance of implementing environment-friendly practices at home, be it through habits, design changes, or modern technology. It’s all important stuff, but we’d like to take a closer look at that third aspect – technology. After all, recent years…

Macaques too like … wait for it … Raunchy Ads

Some like raunchy ads. Others find them distasteful. These others, though, do not include rhesus macaques, apparently. So say a group of researchers, who have done a study with the well-known Old World monkeys and found that the primates reacted better to advertising with sexually explicit imagery. Seriously. In a special…

The Amazon’s Forests are in Big Trouble

Borneo’s stunningly biodiverse forests have been shrinking at alarming rates with trees being felled unceasingly for timber or so that palm oil plantations can take their place. Yet it’s not just the island’s forests that are reaching a crisis point. So are the forests of the Amazon, which too are…

At least 150 Wild Animal Species are being Trafficked in Malaysia

Last year officials of  the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) rescued creatures belonging to 150 species. You’ve read that right: In 2017 wildlife officials handled nearly 3,000 cases of wildlife trafficking in which animals from a whopping 150 species, according to Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, minister of Natural Resources and…

Navigation App could help Save Wildlife

Hundreds upon hundreds of endangered animals perish on Malaysian roads each year. Thankfully, however, officials are doing something about it. In the works are more wildlife crossings in what is a welcome development. Such crossings alone, though, won’t solve the problem of animals ending up as roadkill while they try…

Acidification makes Corals more Brittle. It may even Dissolve Them

The world’s corals, Malaysia’s own stunning reefs included, are facing a host of environmental challenges to their continued survival as a result of manmade global warming and other harmful human activities. These include rising water temperatures, invasive forms of fishing like blast fishing, mass tourism and plastic pollution. Then there…

Drones could Help save Sea Turtles

Drones, acting as eyes in the sky, can help protect forests against illegal loggers. They can help keep better track of wildlife. And they can also be used to help save endangered species. Like turtles. Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom deployed drones to keep a…

A Dutch Supermarket goes Plastic-Free

Much of plastic pollution comes from a simple source: plastic packaging. Plastic is a cheap and versatile substance that can be readily made and used. Then again, it can just as easily be dumped after a singe use, which has led to massive amounts of plastic waste befouling more and…