HOW well do we really know the treasures of our nearest neighbour Indonesia? As a former guru besar of an…

AS a boy, I often prised limpets with my penknife off the rock pools in West Cornwall, United Kingdom, to…

LAST week’s column was about the proposed name for a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene to follow the Holocene and…

Is this a new geological epoch made by us?

IN my recent reread of a first edition (1930) of Dr Eric Georg Mjoberg’s ‘Forest Life and Adventures in the…

WITH the second full moon high in the sky since the winter solstice of Dec 21, may I wish all…

LIMESTONE landscapes or karst scenery have fascinated me throughout my life probably because, as a boy, I was used to…

THE term cockroach was first mentioned in the English language in 1624, in the ship logs of Captain John Smith,…