Ammonia & Heavy Metal Contamination – Teluk Bahang & Penang Island Coastline, Malaysia

Fish near Penang killed by ammonia from waste left at sea (Arnold LOH and Lo Tern CHERN, Asia One; August 16, 2019)

https://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/fish-near-penang-killed-ammonia-waste-left-seaport

Nearly 50,000 fish found dead in a Teluk Bahang due to suspected heavy metal contamination (R. LOHESWAR, Malay Mail; August 12, 2019)

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/08/12/nearly-50000-fish-found-dead-in-teluk-bahang-due-to-suspected-heavy-metal-c/1779858

Scientists offer to help (The Star Malaysia, 20 July 2019)

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/07/20/scientists-offer-to-help

Task force needed to tackle heavy metal pollution in Penang (Balvin KAUR, New Straits Times; May 11, 2019)

https://www.nst.com.my/node/487602/amp

Update:

Penang Hills Watch calls for probe on source of heavy metals in Teluk Bahang river (Opalyn MOK, Malay Mail; October 3, 2019)

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/10/03/penang-hills-watch-calls-for-probe-on-source-of-heavy-metals-in-teluk-bahan/1796757

Illegal Granite Mine in Penang Suspected of Causing Metal Pollution in River
(The Strait Times; October 2, 2019)

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/illegal-granite-mine-in-penang-suspected-of-causing-metal-pollution-in-river

Selected Research Articles:

Case study of marine pollution in Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia (ZANURI et al., 2020)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/414/1/012032/pdf

Ecological Risk Assessments of Metals in Sediments of Penang Coastal Area (DAUD et al., 2017)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Widad_Fadhullah/publication/325140192_ECOLOGICAL_RISK_ASSESSMENTS_OF_METALS_IN_SEDIMENTS_OF_PENANG_COASTAL_AREA/links/5afa39250f7e9b3b0bf01e62/ECOLOGICAL-RISK-ASSESSMENTS-OF-METALS-IN-SEDIMENTS-OF-PENANG-COASTAL-AREA.pdf

Spatial assessment and source identification of heavy metals pollution in surface water using several chemometric techniques (ISMAIL et al., 2016)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/45149661/Spatial_assess___source_ident_of_heavy_metals_pollut_in_surface_water_using_several_chemometric_techniques.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DSpatial_assessment_and_source_identifica.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20190906%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190906T204612Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=e9d3f3affc14d7c9461f189009fb1584a8d286645d83eef95cff2c5721c3a851

Detection of River Pollution using Water Quality Index: A Case Study of Tropical Rivers in Penang Island, Malaysia (NURUL-RUHAYU et al., 2015)
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a17b/809ace28c34265579e624b5a05579a541a5b.pdf?_ga=2.149518966.1137556741.1567803770-1811317860.1567803770

Website:

Centre for Marine & Coastal Studies (CEMACS)

https://cemacs.usm.my/index.php/ms/

Teluk Bahang beach; Penang, Malaysia

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