Water, Could Be Our Next Oil.

75% of the Earth surface is covered with water, only 3% of the water are not salt water, and we can only consume 1% of that water as the 2% is frozen ice and glaciers.

Imagine, how can that little water support the lives of humans on the earth? So it is not surprising that we have a problem. It is a today's problem, and it will be tomorrow's problem if we do not do anything. Water scarcity!

I am sure many of you feels that water scarcity has nothing to do with you. Water scarcity is the next generation's problem, so let them worry about it, don't bug me for their problems!

Kuala Selangor's Fireflies

How it looked during the day. But you won't be able to see any firefly shining bums during the day.

On last Tuesday, my friends and I went to Kuala Selangor, Malaysia, to see their (Kuala Selangor) fireflies. Kuala Selangor has been famous for their fireflies. It is not famous as a kind of food, but it is famous for how they make bushes look like Christmas trees.

I always wanted to go there, but rumours says that the fireflies numbers has decrease already. Some even made it sounded like it has all disappeared. This is due to the building of a dam. This causes the water to rise and destroy a kind of bush at the mangrooves which are the places where the fireflies hang out.

2008, A Whole New World?

Today my mom asked me about my course that I will be doing after I finished my A Levels. Today she found out how long my course will be and that I have made up my mind to study in Malaysia. Well, at least now she knows. For your information, she didn't support me, but i guess she is accepting it now =D

Anyway, Tadah! 2008 is here! And China has planned to ban the usage of plastic bags in supermarkets starting from the middle of this year! Those super markets which do not follow the rule will be taken action. I always know how deadly plastic bags can be to the environment, and i always hope that people can reduce the usage of it, but i never have thought of some one banning it. The idea is big, very big. They encourage people to use reusable bags or cloth bags now and no more giving free plastic bags ( below 250 mm, if i can remember ).

Edexcel Biology Unit Three A Levels

Tomorrow I will be sitting for this subject. I use to think i will like it, as i will learn more about the environment. Yes, i did learn quite some things, more than what i have learned in my secondary school of course but I don't like how it is structured. Look very rigid to me.

We learned a little bit about quite a lot of things about causes, effects and ways to prevent issues such as global warming, deforestation, acid rain and desertification. We also learn about animal modes of nutrition and ecological pyramids.

The thing which i find rigid is that, the questions which they ask, the answers are all around this few things which we have learned. Making it looked like as though the causes of the world environmental problem are based on that few little things when it is actually not! There are so many other causes which we have not learn!

Can You Live Without Plastic Bags?

About 95% in Malaysia will say no. Why? They think they cannot live without it. Ok It is kind of true because plastic bags are really light and durable and they do not take much space. For example, you want to bring a piece of bread to your college or office to eat, but all the Tupperware are big and bulky, you just want to keep your bread clean, so you will take the small white plastic bag for food and tadah! Save space and it's clean.

How about buying take aways food? Polystyrene box ( this is so bad for the environment and health ), then you want some chili sauce, so they pack it in the small cute plastic bags for you to bring it home, you want the sweet sauce for your BBQ pork, another small plastic bag for the sauce. Then that shop sells their food really well, i wonder in one day how many small plastic bags like those for the sauce have they distributed to people. Besides that, pasar malam ( night market ), so many variety of food! So delicious, all readily packed ( in plastics bags of course ) to be sold. And most of them are dump into the drains after being used.

Don't Just Campaign, Give Us More!

There are a few reasons why Malaysians do not recycle. One of them is that, we just don't care. One more is, we get so little money recycling, so why care? I asked my friend one day if she recycles, and she said no because she get so little. Then yesterday i had 4 bags of plastics bottles which i sent for recycling and all i get back was just rm2 and the bag was 6kg. My mom complained it was so little, can't even cover her petrol money of the journey.

Seriously i don't blame her. Isn't that what most of us feel? But I will still do it because of my future. I don't want to live on a garbage dump by 2020. What is the use of a Vision 2020 when our country will just be a a garbage site.

Norway's First Ecological Prison

I copied and paste this article because i find it very interesting!

The minimum-security Bastoey Prison, on a lush island south of Oslo, this week claimed to have achieved its 10-year goal of being the world's first ecological prison.

The prison, without locked gates or barbed wire, has often been compared to a summer camp, and now operates with solar panels, wood-fire heating instead of oil, strict recycling and ecological food production.

The idea is to help the roughly 115 prisoners learn important values, such as protecting the environment and respecting others, before they return to society.

Selayang Dog Catching Competition

Majlis Perbandaran Selayang organised a dog catching competiton to reduce the number of stray dog at that area. However this competitons encourages cruelty to animals and we have our responsibility to protect them as we are humans with a heart. So please sign this online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/doghunt1/petition.html
Thank you.

Well, just read the newspaper, i am glad that they canceled the competition already. Hope god bless those who put in their effort to stop it from happening.

Energy Saving

Currently I am quite interested on the energy field.

I have thought of a few ideas and i hope it can actually work. Thanks to dee because she inspire me. Haha.

Currently, we are finding for clean energy. I have an idea where we can use wind and cars. It's not putting little fans on the cars to generate electricity ( this was what dee suggested) because it creates more resistance to the moving car, so more energy is used to move the car than the energy gain from the little fans.

Panda Poo Found Useful

Ping pong playing panda poo sculpture

One can never die of no money if they think well enough. A chinese wildlife research found out that panda's poo can be used to make souviniers and they have planned to make their olympic souviniers from it too.

Mexican Volcano As Test Bed For Trees on Mars

Scientist are using the slopes of the volcanoes in Mexico to plant tress and if they can make it, it look like they can plant trees in Mars but with some adjusted conditions such as the raise in air pressure and so on.

The objective of doing this is to of course let trees grow in Mars within 100 years time and provide enough oxygen for organism like us to live there.

Malaysia Try To Clone Endangered Turtles

Malaysia is launching a 9 million ringgit project to clone some of its endangered turtles especially the leatherback turtles. Leatherback turtles used to be found at Rantau Abang, Terengganu. But as the years pass by, their number has decreased tremendously together with other species of turtles.

Their number are decreasing because of the illegal hunting of turtles where fisher mans kill them to make souvenirs out of their shells, selling their meat to restaurant and also their eggs, pollution and development of coastal areas.

Degree Courses For Environment Lovers!

Do some of you feel that you were born in this world for a reason? Like God have sent you to do some thing, some thing BIG for the people, like a savior?

Or maybe you like to learn more about the environment, you didn't know there are courses offered by universities around the world just for people like you ( and also me =D).

Well here are a few courses listed for you together with the description of what you will get from it. Maybe you might want to consider of earning money through saving the environment. Make life more meaningful yea?

The Effects Of Global Warming.

We know what cause it and how to prevent it but we don't really know how will it effect us. We just see people panic without understanding why are they acting that way. And we go panic too. Monkey see monkey do.

Well, here are the effects of GW ( global warming ):

Extreme weathers- the green house gasses traps the heat from the sun light causing the amount of heat in the atmoshpere of our earth to increase. Thus increasing the temperature. Not just a little bit but at some place a lot such as in the dessert. Now most of the dessert are inhabitable for humans and animals unlike before.

The Good and The Bad of Ozone

Do you know what is the ozone layer?
It is made up of 3 oxygen unlike the oxygen that we breathe ( 2 oxygen ). It is formed naturally at the stratosphere of our earth. It protects us from the dangerous UV rays from the sun which can cause skin cancer to humans, destroy crops and kill some marine life too.

This ozone layer sound really nice to humans. However it is actually destructive to us when it is formed at the troposphere where it is nearer to human beings and life on earth. But this ozone layer is not naturally formed, but form from air pollution created by automobile exhaust and emissions from factories and power plants.

This ozone which form unnaturally is called the bad ozone. But why is it bad?