ALTHOUGH its existence has been documented for over 100 years, very recent research has cast more light on the nocturnal…

THE word mosquito is derived from the Latin musca, meaning a fly, and was first coined by the 16th century…

AFTER 41 years in the teaching profession, including 16 years as a UK headmaster and another nearly three years in…

FOR the last three summers, I have spent time exploring France’s first Regional Nature Reserve, the Camargue, located where the…

SOURCE: https://mykindofblue.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/sky-color-no-14/ WE look to the sky each morning to decide if an umbrella is needed and, instinctively, the degree…

MAY I ask the reader for the answers to two simple questions? Question 1: What have the following words in…

MY first sighting of a biawak (monitor lizard) in 1999 happened by chance whilst watching hornbills roost along the Kinabatangan…

AT the beginning of this month, the very lengthy and detailed ‘Intergovernmental Panel Report on Climate Change (IPCC) 2014’ was…