The ‘Living Planet Report’
THE World Wildlife Fund (WWF) publishes, at two yearly intervals, its ‘Living Planet Report’. Now in its 10th edition, the…
Browsing: Nature Matters
Water music — Sounds and Sights
DURING my daily walks with my adopted hunting dog along the banks of a local river, under azure blue skies…
The shape of stones
Finding clues of the forces of nature
The tale of the twisters
SOME of nature’s most beautiful patterns are river meanders, especially when seen as sinuous curves while flying several thousand metres…
Wallace and the Sarawak Law
ON Nov 1, 1854, Alfred Russel Wallace arrived in Kuching after a brief spell recovering from a shipwreck on his…
Meteotsunamis – the ticking time bombs
WE all know about tsunamis by earthquakes or other seismic activities. Their destructive capabilities were well documented in the devastation…
A living fossil
HOW much do we really know about the elusive Malaysian pangolin (Manis javanica)? The name pangolin was first coined in…
Haze – brown clouds
THE acrid smell of the air and its pungent taste invaded after the drying weeks in September and the first…