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…

News alert: Most of coral reefs around the oceans will likely be gone by mid-century unless we cut back on our CO2 emissions. According to scientists who have studied corals and published their findings in the journal Science Advances, corals in cooler waters may be able to adapt to slightly…

As global warming continues to take its toll, corals in the Pacific Ocean are dying off en masse. Reefs in several areas have experienced alarming mass bleaching episodes, leaving large swathes of coral dead or near-dead. Corals are tiny creatures that live in colonies and require algae to provide them…

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the world’s natural wonders and its largest living structure. Now brace yourself: it’s in a “terminal” state of decline. Shocking news? Yes. But not all that unexpected, sadly. Two successive mass bleaching events last year and this year across much of the reef have pushed…

Heat waves. Droughts. Forest fires. Crop failures. Water shortages. This year’s El Nino, which could potentially become one of the most severe outbreaks of the periodic weather phenomenon in recent history, may bring plenty of misfortune for Malaysians across the country, from Sarawak to Kedah. Because of what this weather…