MALAYSIA  AND  ENVIRONMENT


NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
About town: One hour for Earth
2009/06/25
NEW STRAITS TIME
NURJEHAN MOHAMED


DO your bit for the environment by switching off non-essential lights for an hour "Earth Hour" this March 28 from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.

This annual international event is created by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of this month. Households and businesses are asked to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for an hour to raise awareness of the need to take action on climate change.

WWF hopes to reach its target of one billion people switching off their lights as part of a vote against global warming, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year.

NURJEHAN MOHAMED finds out what the environment and Earth Hour mean to three young Malaysians.

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COMMENT FOR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

This newspaper article is about one of the action to save our environment by our society that call World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). The society has do the campaign that call "Earth Hour".This society hopes to reach its target of one billion people switching off their lights as part of a vote against global warming. This article also show the comment of the student in Malaysia about this campaign. As the conclusion to save and protect our environment, we must do many actions such as recycle the plastic, paper, bottle and glass. We also can save our environment by doing the individual action, society action and country action to keep save and protect our environment.

WEBSITE ARTICLE

2005 MALAYSIAN HAZE

The 2005 Malaysian haze was a week-long choking smog-like haze over Malaysia that almost brought the central part of Peninsular Malaysia to a standstill, prompted crisis talks with Indonesia and caused widespread inconvenience. The haze was at its worst on August 11, 2005. This was a comeback of the haze crisis which last hit Malaysia in September 1997.

INITIAL ONSET

Haze is caused by "hotspots" (zones with high temperature levels as seen via satellite imagery) in Malaysia and Indonesia. Lingering smoke from forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are identified as the primary cause. Farmers regularly burn scrub and forest to clear land during the dry season for agricultural purposes, but this is the worst haze that has hit Malaysia since the 1997 haze.

On August 10, 2005, air quality in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur was so poor, health officials advised citizens to stay at home with doors closed. Some schools were closed to keep children from being exposed to the haze........

please visit this page for full story.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Malaysian_haze

COMMENT FOR WEBSITE ARTICLE

This article is about the Malaysia haze that happens in year 2005. What I can understand about this website is it happens on August 10, 2005, air quality in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur was so poor, health officials advised citizens to stay at home with doors closed. Some schools were closed to keep children from being exposed to the haze. The air pollutant index readings (API) were released for the first time by the Malaysian government since 1997. Up to date readings are now available for the 51 sites monitored automatically and continuously via the Department of Environment, Malaysia. The haze is decrease on September 11.