Best of our wild blogs: 30 Aug 16

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Mass coral bleaching in Singapore: why should I care? wild shores of singapore Ghostly clams Neo Mei Lin Coral Bleaching at Terumbu ...

15 more cases of locally transmitted Zika detected in Singapore

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Channel NewsAsia 29 Aug 16; SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 15 more cases of locally transmitted Zika virus infection i...

Punggol pre-schoolers get screened for TB; second such case in a week

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KENNETH CHENG Today Online 30 Aug 16; SINGAPORE — In the second case of tuberculosis (TB) at a pre-school to emerge in less than a week, ...

New dengue cases spike to 274 last week; upward trend expected: NEA

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Channel NewsAsia 30 Aug 16; SINGAPORE: The number of new dengue cases spiked to 274 in the week ending Aug 27, up from 222 the previous w...

Air quality expected to stay in normal range for next 24 hours: NEA

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Channel NewsAsia 29 Aug 16; SINGAPORE: Air quality in Singapore is expected to remain in the normal range for the next 24 hours, the Nati...

Far less litter left by NDP partygoers this year

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Audrey Tan, Straits Times AsiaOne 29 Aug 16; Many partygoers outside the National Stadium brought along their own trash bags, said a vol...

Malaysia: Catchment areas needed to solve Johor’s looming water crisis

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Liew Chin Tong Letter to Malaysia Kini 30 Aug 16; No one can deny that there is a looming water crisis in Johor. Residents in Kluang ...

Malaysia: Slight relief as downpour increases water level at Congok Dam

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HALIM SAID New Straits Times 29 Aug 16; MERSING: The water level at the Congok Dam today showed a slight increase after a downpour last n...

Malaysia: Four areas record unhealthy API readings

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DAWN CHAN AND TEOH PEI YING New Straits Times 30 Aug 16; SEREMBAN: The haze situation in the country continues to deteriorate, with four ...

Indonesia: Riau air pollution reaches dangerous level

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Rizal Harahap The Jakarta Post 29 Aug 16; Riau has grappled with severe air pollution for the past week as land and forest fires continue...

Indonesia: Forest and bush fires expected to end in October

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The Jakarta Post 29 Aug 16; The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) estimated on Monday that the bush and forest fires in Sumatra ...