Hello Prof and friends! In this final post, we’ll be concluding what we’ve learnt in this module as well as our reflections.  We started off the module by learning about important concepts in pollution such as basic pollution chemistry. Next, we learnt about the causes and consequences of different types of pollution – aquatic, air,…

Hello Prof! Hello friends!   We hope everyone is hanging on this very last week of the semester! Based on the title, we will be delving into… pesticide pollution! To be honest with you, we did not know anything about soil pollution – what more pesticide – prior to this module. When the common (wo)man thinks…

Spilling Oil News Hello Prof! Hello friends! In the early part of the semester, Dr Chen Mengli  covered marine pollution and the devastating episodes of oil spills such as Deepwater Horizon spill and Torry Canyon Spill. Today, we will shed light to recent oil spill events. On 25 July this year, an oil spill hit…

Hello Prof! Hello friends! Today, we will delve into the environmental social injustices in the fashion industry.  With the globalization of the fashion industry, there has been an unprecedented displacement of environmental and social impacts – a large proportion of the environmental impacts of fashion consumption has been shifted from developed to developing countries (Wiedmann…

Hello Prof! Hello friends!   We will be delving into the topic of Fast Fashion. This topic is very known to us; yet, how much do we know if its details like where it came from and how it affects the environment? Fast fashion brands exist in almost everyone’s closet. It is thus necessary and…

Hello Prof! Hello Friends!   One of the most interesting, new things both of us came across in this module is Light Pollution. When we look at light, all we think about is how bright and beautiful it is, how it makes the darkest area a safer place. Who knew light sources can be a…

Hello Prof and friends! Living in Singapore, transboundary haze is no hazy topic to us. Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia has been a problem that engulfs SEA nations almost every year since 1972 (Lee, 2015). Periods of haze also coincides with the El Nino Southern Oscillation phenomenon, which brings drier weather and droughts in Indonesia,…

Hello Prof and friends! In Tutorial 2, we delved into comparing Singapore’s Pollution Standards Index (PSI) with other Air Quality Indices (AQI). It has been noted that during major haze events, as determined by the National Environment Agency (NEA), the primary pollutant is always PM2.5. To refresh your memory, the primary pollutant in this context…

Hello Prof and friends!   Today we will be talking about how air pollution was exacerbated, mostly post-lockdown. While the previous post gave us a gleam of hope, the reality is air pollution oftentimes reverted to normal once activities resume. China’s levels of air pollution increased and returned back to normal (CNA, 2020). This is…

Hello Prof and friends!   In Week 5, we saw that the circuit breaker has resulted in a decrease in air pollution levels in Singapore. Looking at the broader scheme of things, this trend is not only limited to Singapore’s borders!   Even in the rapidly polluted countries such as China, there has been a…