Singapore ResearchClimate · Environment · Future
Non-profit · Environmental research · Singapore

Studying Singapore'sclimate, environment,and future.

A non-profit research institute in Singapore, studying the climate we live in, the environment around us, and the decades ahead.

Research pillars

Six landscapes. One island.

Each programme answers a question Singapore's policymakers, scientists, and communities are already asking, with research that reaches the field, not just the page.

01

Marine science

Coral resilience for the Southern Islands

More than a decade of hyperspectral surveys across Singapore's Southern reefs, studying coral cover, species composition, and the slow, beautiful, fragile ways our reefs are changing.

Reef sites monitored
63
Hectares mapped
1,240
02

Climate equity

Urban heat, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

A continuous, neighbourhood-scale study of Singapore's heat, drawing on 9,400 IoT sensors and Sentinel-3 thermals to understand how the city warms, and where the next park, awning or louvre will matter most.

Streets mapped
100%
°C avg cooling delivered
−2.1
03

Biodiversity

Listening to the rainforest

Continuous bioacoustic listening across Bukit Timah and the Central Catchment, studying 312 native species and quietly following the pangolins, hornbills and slow lorises that share the island with us.

Species identified
312
Recording hours / week
4,800
04

Blue carbon

Mangroves & the carbon coastline

LiDAR-led mapping of every mangrove in Singapore, measuring above and below-ground biomass, the carbon they hold, and the coastline they quietly defend.

ha mapped
812
tCO₂e verified
146k
05

Water quality

Clean water for a tropical island

A continuous study of every reservoir, canal and stream on the island, tracking algal blooms, sediment plumes and pollution sources so the water we drink, swim in and live around stays clean.

Catchments observed
17
Sample resolution
10 m
06

Atmosphere

Air pollution at the postal-code scale

Satellite imagery, low-cost sensors and traffic data, together, studying the air street by street, so every household has clarity instead of a city-wide average.

Postal codes covered
8,200
Pollutants tracked
9

Field impact · 2025–2026

Numbers that walk out of the lab and into the city.

We measure ourselves by what changes outside the lab: cleaner air, cleaner water, cooler streets, reefs that spawn.

146,800
Tonnes CO₂e mapped & verified
63
Reefs under continuous AI watch
−2.1°C
Avg. neighbourhood cooling
312
Native species acoustically tracked
8,200
Postal codes mapped for clean air & water
100%
Open methods, datasets & weights

Areas of study

Everything connected. Studied carefully.

From the canopy to the coastline, the air to the aquifer, the tropics are a single, intricate system. We try to understand them in that spirit.

ReefsMangrovesRainforestRiversReservoirsCoastlinesEstuariesHeatSoilWindSeasonsTidesAirReefsMangrovesRainforestRiversReservoirsCoastlinesEstuariesHeatSoilWindSeasonsTidesAir
LightSoundPollutantsAquifersCanopyAtmosphereBiodiversityClimateCyclesStreetsStormsCloudsMigrationLightSoundPollutantsAquifersCanopyAtmosphereBiodiversityClimateCyclesStreetsStormsCloudsMigration

An institute that listens before it speaks.

The decade ahead

Singapore is small enough to get this right, ambitious enough to lead.

We are building the most loved environmental research institute in the tropics. The next decade is being decided now.

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