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…