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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Studies have shown that the presence of dragonflies and damselflies indicates low pollution levels in the environment (Lesch & Bouwman, 2018; Ho et al., 2018; Simon, 2012). This is due to their lifecycle, where the insect spends most of its life living in water, hence, water quality is very crucial for their survival (Samways and…

In previous blog posts, we have talked about sensitive plants that act as bioindicators that could potentially detect pollutants like ozone in the in Switzerland (links from previous blog post: Plants as bioindicators of ozone and Effect of Ozone On Native Plant Species in Switzerland). In Singapore, we also have natural bioindicators like insects and…

Singapore, located on the equator carries a suitable climate for a diverse forest ecosystem. There are four different types of forests in Singapore, each carrying its own distinctive characteristics. Lowland dipterocarp forests: These types of forests are dominated by tall trees from the Dipterocarpaceae, where tree species are characterised by their large canopies that forms…