Thank you for following us through this journey! Over the past few months, we have shared quite some information on the current situation of pollution in forests, their sources, causes, sciences, and some of the potential solutions to mitigate it. Hopefully, through this series of blog posts, we have enlightened you more about pollution in…

Plastics can be eaten by… fungi? We stumbled upon a rather interesting news report, about a potential solution to our current plastic problem – fungi! Previously, we have talked about fungi’s importance for carbon sequestration in forests. Now, there are also other uses of fungi and this video shows fungi being used to breakdown plastics….

In a previous post, we talked about how fungi play a part in carbon sequestration, and how pollution affects the fungal community in forests where it would possibly release huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if these organisms die. There is an association between fungi and trees, in the way they sequester carbon…

Legislation and policies are no doubt one of the most effective starting points to enact changes, if adhered to and enforced. A quick google search had returned relatively few results on policies that tackle pollution in forests directly. Most policies that we have found seemed to place focus on preventing deforestation through the regulation of…

Play a part in reducing pollutant levels in our urban forest! In efforts to work towards becoming a City in Nature, the One Million Trees movement is an initiative by the National Parks Board (NParks) to incorporate community engagement to achieve their aim of planting one million trees across the city within the next 10…

Shirin-yoku, literally translated to “forest bathing” refers to a practice where one “bathes” in the atmosphere of the forest. The sensory connection one forms with nature through sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch bridges the gap between humans and the natural world (Li, 2018). With the increase of urbanisation, and the tendency to stay indoors…

We attended a lecture on “Waste impact on ecosystems” by Dr. Amy Choong who is teaching Waste and our Environment (LSM1307). The link allows you to search for the effects of a pollutant on a particular habitat, ecosystem, or even more specifically, a species of organism. Below is an example of selecting “Acid deposition” as…

Forests are a critical cog in the water cycle. Termed as the “rivers in the sky”, the trees in the forests act as fountains that suck water out from the ground and releasing it into the atmosphere through the pores of its foliage (Wheeling, 2019). This results in giant “rivers” in the sky whereby clouds…

Forests are an important climate change regulator. Trees are an important carbon sink within forests that plays a big role in doing that, but there is another critical organism that plays a major role in regulating climate change – fungi. Studies have found that fungi are responsible for most carbon sequestration in forests (Malyan et…