Natural disaster and weather predictors
THERE are so many English proverbs related to weather such as the month of “March comes in as a lion…
Browsing: Nature Matters
‘It always rains at Gunong Mulu’
THIS is the title of an article written 36 years ago in ‘The Geographical Magazine’ by Dr Margaret Mary Sweeting.…
Capturing nature’s capricious moods
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” William Henry Davies (1911)…
‘Waterloo sunset …’
FOLK of my vintage may well remember a catchy tune performed by a British rock band in 1967 entitled ‘Waterloo…
Rat ratings!
MY first encounter with an urban rat was, as an eight-year-old child, in a sandpit at my primary school. It…
The science of rain-making
THE Borneo Post’s headline, ‘Withering heights till August’ on April 11, based on information from the Meteorological Department suggested a…
Coral reefs — the rainforests of the ocean
THE old adage, ‘out of sight, out of mind’, can be applied to coral reefs. We often shout loudly about…
Fire, earth, air and water
HOW well do we really know the treasures of our nearest neighbour Indonesia? As a former guru besar of an…