The world’s awash with plastic garbage
AN unscrupulous British exporter dumped whole container loads of household rubbish in Malaysia but fortunately it was seized and re-exported…
Browsing: Nature Matters
Cloud cuckoo in the skies
HOW often have we seen jet contrails in the sky during this Covid-19 pandemic? Airports are working at minimum capacity…
Much maligned macaques
MACAQUES are monkeys and not apes. My dealings with them have been confined to the Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia,…
‘Rus in urbe’
THE countryside in the town concept helped us in urban areas to focus our vision and sense of well-being during…
‘Rus in urbe’
THE countryside in the town concept helped us in urban areas to focus our vision and sense of well-being during…
Rising, rising, rising from the Equator to the Poles
HISTORY has a habit of repeating itself but at an unprecedented rate as of today. Combined researchers at University College…
Beauty and The Beast
“THE beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I…
The birds of paradise and a quest fulfilled
THE chance to tick something from one’s bucket list does not often present itself. One can wait years for such…