Friday, 27 February 2026

Category: Opinion

The farmer’s cure

JAMIN, a lean and weathered young farmer, had just finished a gruelling day’s work tending his paddy field. The soft dirt of the well-worn path

Blue carbon: Nature’s climate change shield

BLUE carbon refers to the carbon captured by the world’s oceanic and coastal ecosystems, particularly mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes. These ecosystems store vast amounts

Magnet Empire falters

CHINA’S recent export controls on six rare earth elements (REEs) and rare earth magnets have sent the world in a tizzy.  These products are used

Father taught by example

WHEN I was younger, my father did not teach me and my siblings by example in the way that teachers in school did, with blackboards

Feasible futuristic feast

“Great minds cannot be produced in any country when its test depends on agreeing with small minds.” –– John Stuart Mill, British philosopher WHAT if