Singapore – First Singaporean to win the renowned Vautrin Lud Prize in Geography, Professor Brenda Yeoh of the National University of Singapore (NUS) has won the top prize in geography for her exceptional accomplishments. It’s been given every year for the last 30 years and is known as the “Nobel Prize” of geography. A five-person international jury in Saint-Die-des-Vosges, France, …

Last month, after days of heavy rain, the dam at a small reservoir in the Guangxi area of China gives way in a failure that could be a harbinger of sterner tests for several of the country’s 94,000 ageing dams as the environment gets extremer. Located in the county of Yangshuo, famed for its otherworldly karst scenery, the dam collapsed …