Malaysia News

RSS
1048 stories

Plantations can produce more palm oil if they keep riverbanks forested

Rachel Fritts 10 Sep 2018

A civic outcry in Malaysia forces a Chinese builder to live up to its eco-friendly tag

Keith Schneider 5 Sep 2018

A Malaysian port city grapples with the fallout from Chinese funding

Keith Schneider 24 Aug 2018

Amid corruption scandal, Malaysia switches track on future of rail network

Keith Schneider 16 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top forestry official out in Malaysia

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2018

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

Keith Schneider 8 Aug 2018

In Malaysia, an island drowns in its own development

Keith Schneider 26 Jul 2018

Cracks appear in Malaysia’s building spree, once a model for development

Keith Schneider 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Tiger, clouded leopard skins among illegal wildlife parts seized in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2018

Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

Online pet trade in Southeast Asia poses a major new threat to otters

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2018

Geneticists: It’s time to mix the Sumatran rhino subspecies

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2018

Roads might pose even bigger threat to Southeast Asian forests, biodiversity than previously understood

Mike Gaworecki 22 May 2018

First record of ultrasound communication in the mysterious Sunda colugo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2018

New species of Malaysian water beetle named after Leonardo DiCaprio

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

Kate Mayberry 30 Apr 2018

‘Shocking and worrying’: Selective logging has big, lasting impact on fish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2018

Signoff on rhino sperm transfer between Indonesia, Malaysia expected mid-May: Official

Basten Gokkon 26 Apr 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

Bornean bantengs feeling the heat in logged forests, study finds

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

‘Lost’ fairy lantern spotted in Malaysian Borneo after 151 years

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Mar 2018

Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2018

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

John Cannon 26 Feb 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

you're currently offline