5 Fascinating Facts About Carrier Pigeons
Long before wireless networks, carrier pigeons were widely used to send messages. We uncovered five fascinating fast facts about carrier pigeons through the years....
Jiuzhaigou Valley
The travertine mirrors of Min Shan
Text by YD Bar-Ness & Photos by Lunita S V Mendoza
To encounter a calm, clear pool of water in...
Asia’s Great Tuskers see their last days
Great Tuskers are the closest living cousins of the legendary Woolly mammoth. Their tusks grow up to a whopping 2 metres long! Magnificent though they may be, these appendages are the very reason the elephants are quickly going extinct.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By now, most of us are aware that there is a large patch of plastic floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What...
Plastic Pollution: Greenest Countries in Asia
By Terence Koh
Plastic pollution is one of the most challenging environmental problems afflicting the world today. With most of the fastest growing economies located...
Extreme Salt
The arid conditions thieve from a salt lake until all that is left is an alien landscape, a lifeless plain punctuated with saturated puddles. Workers toting baskets wade into the shallows. They are collecting salt, essential to the human diet, to medicine and even to the production of fertilisers and explosives.
Our Planet, Our Life: Cleaning Up Versova Beach
Text: Shreya Acharya
Instead of revelling in a much sought-after public holiday by having breakfast in bed or catching up on daytime TV, about 4800...
China’s Attempt at Mitigating Plastic Waste
Text: Sitaraah Joshi
Imagine looking over an endless sea of overcrowded, cluttered waste. Such is the plight of the heaps of rubbish that have been...