Invasive Mussel Species Found In Asia For First Time
And researchers in Singapore say the mussel might be living under the radar across Asian waters
Celebrating Earth with the late H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
According to the United Nations:
The equivalent of one soccer field of soil is eroded every 5 seconds.
It can take up to 1,000...
5,000 Years of Pepper
THE pepper belongs to the Solanaceae family, from which we have also acquired the tomato, the potato and the eggplant. The variety of peppers...
Trees: An Antidote to Desertification
by Professor Alon Tal
When the United Nations and the World Bank brought together the best minds in ecology from around the world to assess...
5 Top Places to See Wildlife in Asia
From the rare Amur tigers of Siberia, to the gangly gibbons of Borneo, Asia has a wealth of wildlife. Some animals freely roam the...
How Cobalt Goes from Congo to the World
Mobile phones are one of the most popular personal devices on Earth. With the demand for lithium skyrocketing along with the ubiquity of the...
The Tree of Life
This is a story about our little branch on the tree of life. Let us journey out on a figurative limb, balancing our way along the branch we share with the primates, and then onto the smaller branch we call Homo. Thanks to advances in genetic technology, working in tandem with fragments of fossil evidence, we are starting to get a sense of where, geographically, this strand began.
Coastal Clean-ups
Text and Photos Nathaniel Soon
Volunteer groups in Singapore are cleaning up the island nation’s beaches and waterways and helping scientists assess the scale of...