A natural contributor to climate change
TODAY the very words ‘climate change’ seem to be on everyone’s tongue for, inevitably, much attention has been focussed on…
Browsing: Nature Matters
A blazing and blistering year
WE have all felt the heat this year but not as much as those who do not work or live…
The clock is ticking down for the world’s major rivers
OUR rivers are running out of time. Water is the major source of all life and has been for millennia.…
Sand storming!
RECENTLY I purchased a bag of cement and three bags of sand from my local building supplier’s yard only to…
The persecution of minority people
IT was 11 years ago that I started to contribute to this column, often writing articles on endangered or vulnerable…
From small seeds, great dipterocarp trees grow yet taller
WHAT in common have the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the Yellow Meranti dipterocarp tree at the Danum…
Seaside stingers in UK and Malaysian waters
MY parents, in the early 1960s, would often take my sister and myself, in summertime, to Whitesand Beach at Sennen…
An act of ecological vandalism
SEVENTEEN years ago, whilst aboard a ship sailing from the Seychelles to Madagascar, I spotted my first whale, an orca…