Festive firs and pines
DECEMBER 25 marks the birth of the Christ child Jesus in many of the Christian churches and, as the shepherds…
Browsing: Nature Matters
The wishful walrus
PERHAPS you may have read as a child Lewis Carroll’s poem, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, which appeared in his…
A room without a book is like a body without a soul
SOME months ago, a visiting friend of some junior years and I found ourselves standing together in my modest library.…
Combatting malaria and dengue fever
WHILST our world is presently bedevilled with wars, famine, climate change, refuge problems, and the knock-on effects of the Covid-19…
Mankind induced catastrophes or massive natural disasters?
VARIOUS views have been expressed by journalists in the international press on both issues in my title of this column,…
Where have all the glaciers gone?
AS we readily pluck ice cubes out of our refrigerators to cool ourselves, we really do not appreciate that our…
The seldom seen tapir
EIGHTY-three years ago, the then Malayan Nature Society (MNS) was founded. Thirty-six-years ago, I was given a copy of the…
Extreme marine heatwaves and ‘worlds’ so near yet so far apart
JULY 2023 was confirmed as the global hottest air temperature month at 16.95 degrees Celsius breaking the previous record of…