WWF launches Plastic Smart Cities initiative in South East Asia with a $40M...
Singapore, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 - WWF launched the Plastic Smart Cities initiative today at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore. The initiative brings...
Multi-stakeholder support for a circular economy
● Global Initiatives, UN Environment Programme, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Wide Fund for Nature welcome delegates to the 8th Responsible...
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...
Gone Dry: Trees as an Antidote to Desertification
by Professor Alon TalWhen the United Nations and the World Bank brought together the best minds in ecology from around the world to assess...
Wave of Destruction: Remembering the 2014 Indian Ocean Tsunami
by Kathy PohThe way the oceans took all that they had was how a predator might pounce on its unsuspecting prey. As waters along...
Prized Medicinal Plants and Animals
by Rachel Kwek
Mankind has for thousands of years tapped into the plethora of plants and animals on Earth for medicine and food. We take...
Philippine Eagle Coming to Singapore Wildlife Reserve for Breeding
by Leilani Chavez on 11 June 2019
The Philippines has loaned off two Philippine eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi) to Singapore for a 10-year breeding agreement, part of...
Ambassadors from Ancient Asia
An ambassador travels to distant parts of the world and brings stories with them from their homeland. Today, Asia – Earth’s supercontinent – is...
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Asia’s Sweet Success: The History of Ice Cream in Asia
by Selina Tan
The concept of a frozen dessert is one that goes back thousands of years. By pouring a mixture of salt and ice over containers of liquid syrup, the Chinese were creating a rudimentary form of ice cream as long ago as 2000 BC. The resulting frozen product...
The Pyramid of Gunung Padang
Megalithic site in Indonesia could be the oldest in the world
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PeruGunung Padang is once again making headlines as the first pyramid in Southeast Asia and the oldest megalithic site in the world.Recent discoveries as deep as 90 feet found the hill-pyramid to contain...
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
(Photo: Graphicaartis/Corbis)
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon has captured the imagination of historians worldwide for centuries. Yet, its existence remains a debate as years of digging have turned up nothing about the lost Gardens.First described in a book called Babyloniaca by a Chaldean priest named Berossus in 280 BC, the...