By Lee Kwai Han Roughly 40% of the global fish catch comes from small-scale fisheries. It’s one of the food production ...

Malaysia’s Commodities Minister on Wednesday expressed concern over the European Union classifying the country as “standard risk” under the new anti-deforestation law, saying the designation was based ...

Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy. ... From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

A new analysis warns that AI facilities could be forced to stop operating because of water shortages and blackouts.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Malaysia’s upcoming Climate Change Act could see the establishment of a domestic emissions trading scheme, according to a draft bill published by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental ...

Kenanga Investment Bank Research estimates that electricity demand from data centres in Malaysia may hit a total of 5 GW by 2035. Tenaga Nasional’s current installed electrical capacity for ...

The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk.

According to Google’s data from November 2023, ... “This is because the changes in Malaysia’s climate are not as erratic as those in the global North,” he says.

Data repositories and climate fund. Two new data collection systems will also be established under the upcoming Act. The first is a National Integrated Climate Data Repository, which will “modernise ...

Even without data centres, Malaysia is susceptible to power interruptions because of storms, including one that lasted 30 minutes last year and killed 300,000 fish, costing Lau over US$1mil (RM4 ...