Daily Archives: 20 June 2012

Singapore Seagrass Workshop (by Siti Maryam Yaakub)

Click on image to download pdf. Singapore Seagrass Workshop Date: Monday, 02 July 2012 Time: 8.30am – 6.00pm Venue: DBS Conference Room Blk S3 Level 5 (#05-01) Conducted by: Siti Maryam Yaakub, Experimental Marine Ecology Lab Dept. Biological Sciences, NUS … Continue reading

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Surprise discovery in the Arctic (The Straits Times, Monday 18 June 2012)

Click on image to download pdf. Surprise discovery in the Arctic By Michael Richardson For the Straits Times Two years ago, a Canadian research team alarmed climate scientists when it published the results of a survey of the oceans, the … Continue reading

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Green thoughts inspired by Stockholm and Rio (The Straits Times, Saturday 16 June 2012)

Click on image to download pdf. Green thoughts inspired by Stockholm and Rio How far has the world come in creating awareness of the environment? By Tommy Koh For the Straits Times In 1972, the United Nations convened the historic … Continue reading

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New Publication: A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from coral reefs in the Indo-West Pacific

Here is a new publication describing a new genus and species of Leucosiid crab by RMBR director Professor Peter Ng and Dr Komai Tomoyuki of the Natural History Museum and Institute in Chiba! Dr Komai last visited us in February this year where … Continue reading

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RIO+20 Mapping the way to a greener future (The Straits Times, Saturday 16 June 2012)

Click on image to download pdf. RIO+20 Mapping the way to a greener future The gathering of heads of state and corporate leaders will be what UN chief Ban Ki Moon sees as a big step towards a global movement … Continue reading

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Water runs in a desert boy’s blood (Today, Saturday 16 June 2012)

Click on image to download pdf.     Water runs in a desert boy’s blood   Ng Jing Ying   He plodded through the ankle-deep waters in his flip-flops – no tricked-out adventurer’s gear, despite his celebrity status – and … Continue reading

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