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More hot days with temperatures above 34 deg C to come after third warmest February in years
Goh Yan Han Straits Times 6 Mar 19;
SINGAPORE - Singaporeans can expect warmer days ahead, with the mercury going beyond 34 deg C more often.
The daily maximum temperature is expected to exceed 34.1 deg C on more days in the future, said the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) on Tuesday (March 5).
Singapore's annual temperature has been steadily rising over the last 25 years and MSS' climate projections indicate that with global warming, there is a greater likelihood of more heat extremes.
The authority was responding to queries from The Straits Times after it was reported last week that February 2019 was the third warmest February since 1929.
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Malaysia: Kelantan DID releasing dam water to irrigate farmland
Sharifah Mahsinah Abdullah New Straits Times 5 Mar 19;
RANTAU PANJANG: The Kelantan Drainage and Irrigation Department has been releasing water from the Bukit Kwong dam here to irrigate drought-affected farmland.
Its director Kamal Mustapha said the water level had dropped by nearly two metres since they started releasing water in January.
“The reading in January was 16m. “The department decided to release the water to help farmers in the state who are facing difficulties to obtain water supply after Sungai Golok dried up,” he said.
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Malaysia: More forest fires in the offing due to El Nino
BALVIN KAUR New Straits Times 5 Mar 19;
GEORGE TOWN: Environmental activists are warning that more forest fires are likely to flare up over the next two months, before the El Nino phenomenon ends.
Malaysian Nature Society Penang branch adviser D. Kanda Kumar said the state had been plagued by forest fires for decades, but the situation appeared to be getting worse now.
“This could be due to the changes in the weather and the El Nino phenomenon,” he told New Straits Times today.
It was reported that more than 3,000 incidences of open burning were reported nationwide last night, almost doubling the number of cases in January.
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Thailand: Mums with babies among dugongs sighted in Trang sea
The Nation 5 Mar 19;
The sighting of more dugongs in the Andaman sea off the coast of southern province of Trang is a good sign that the population has increased, the director of Phuket Marine Biological Centre said on Tuesday.
Dr Kongkiart Kittiwatanawong, said the centre was conducting a dugong sighting survey in the Andaman Sea around Koh Libong and Koh Muk from February 28 through to this Tuesday.
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Bird extinctions 'driven' by global food trade
Helen Briggs BBC News 5 Mar 19;
About 100 bird species are predicted to go extinct based on current farming and forestry practices, according to a new global analysis.
This number has increased by 7% over the first ten years of this century alone, say scientists.
They say the biggest factor is cattle farming, but the impact of oil seed crops like palm and soy is growing fast.
By comparison, an estimated 140 birds have been lost over the past 400 years.
International researchers used bird extinction as a measure of the loss of biodiversity - the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat - linked with international trade in food and timber.
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Sustainability central to MPA's social responsibility efforts
The MPA Sustainability Office aims to "foster a culture of good governance, prudent resource management and conscientious environmental and social practices"
NAVIN SREGANTAN Business Times 5 Mar 19;
SUSTAINABILITY feels like a buzzword, or a term that is fashionable for the moment.
But that is not the case for the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), as the word is a central theme in the statutory board's corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts.
Its initiatives are channelled through the MPA Sustainability Office, which was set up in 2014 to build on MPA's focus on internal and external sustainability issues that cover environmental, economic, social and governance causes. MPA director of corporate development and chief financial officer Yvonne Chan told The Business Times that the office's objectives are to "foster a culture of good governance, prudent resource management and conscientious environmental and social practices".
These are achieved through advocacy drives, philanthropic efforts and staff volunteerism. Among its advocacy efforts, MPA enforces the application of consistent environmental standards among ship owners and port users while also complying with environmental regulations set by national and global bodies, Ms Chan said.
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SCDF puts out fire near Lim Chu Kang cemetery after battling for nearly a day
Channel NewsAsia 5 Mar 19;
SINGAPORE: Firefighters in Singapore put out a vegetation fire near Lim Chu Kang Chinese Cemetery on Tuesday (Mar 5) after battling the blaze for nearly a whole day.
This was one of the longest Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) operations involving vegetation fires in recent years, said SCDF on its Facebook page on Tuesday morning.
SCDF responded to the fire at about 7am on Monday morning, and extinguished it 19 hours later, at about 2am on Tuesday.
Damping down operations are ongoing to prevent any potential rekindling from hot burnt surfaces.
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Malaysia: Wildlife officers save lost tapir in Kota Kemuning
The Star 4 Mar 19;
PETALING JAYA: A tapir, believed to have wandered away from the jungle, somehow ended up in Kota Kemuning.
Several residents there, who were getting ready for their Sunday morning walk and breakfast, were surprised to find the nocturnal hoofed mammal in their housing estate.
The tapir was spotted wandering around aimlessly, eating plants and bushes at about 7am as more residents, some on motorcycles, came to take a glimpse of it.
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Malaysia: 24 open burning cases reported daily in Johor - Fire Dept
The Star 5 Mar 19;
JOHOR BARU: An average of 24 open burning cases are being reported daily in Johor since the beginning of this year.
Johor Fire and Rescue Department director Datuk Yahaya Madis (pic) said 1,443 open burning cases had been reported throughout the state in the first two months.
“These included almost 300 forest and field fires that were either sparked because of the heatwave or deliberately lit by people living in the area.
“Fires that took the department days to put out often involved cases that happened in peatland because when peat soil burns, it can burn deep underground,” he said in an interview yesterday.
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