HOW well do we really know the treasures of our nearest neighbour Indonesia? As a former guru besar of an…
Browsing: Nature Matters
Fire, earth, air and water
The strength in a limpet’s tooth
AS a boy, I often prised limpets with my penknife off the rock pools in West Cornwall, United Kingdom, to…
The ‘Plasticscene’
LAST week’s column was about the proposed name for a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene to follow the Holocene and…
The Anthropocene
Is this a new geological epoch made by us?
What exactly is an epiphyte?
IN my recent reread of a first edition (1930) of Dr Eric Georg Mjoberg’s ‘Forest Life and Adventures in the…
Which way do we face?
WITH the second full moon high in the sky since the winter solstice of Dec 21, may I wish all…
Mulu’s fantastical and fascinating features
LIMESTONE landscapes or karst scenery have fascinated me throughout my life probably because, as a boy, I was used to…
Re pugnant or remarkable?
THE term cockroach was first mentioned in the English language in 1624, in the ship logs of Captain John Smith,…