So What's So Bad About Corn?

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Joel Achenbach, Washington Post 23 Nov 07; As Iowa Enjoys a Bumper Crop, Farmers Hear It From Environmentalists, Ethanol Skeptics and Other...

New programme to spread message of recycling among preschool children

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Channel NewsAsia 24 Nov 07 SINGAPORE : This year's Recycling Day saw the launch of a programme for the future generation. Environment M...

Singapore: A pot threatening to boil over

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Seah Chiang Nee, The Star 24 Nov 07; Cracks are already appearing between Singaporeans and the new settlers who have come as permanent resi...

Best of our wild blogs: 24 Nov 07

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Buy Nothing Day shopping is like alcholism! with a poll, on the leafmonkey blog also about the related US Black Friday . Crabby Babies! Sig...

New York shoppers beat economic blues at 'Black Friday' sales

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AFP 24 Nov 07 NEW YORK (AFP) — Shoppers in New York brushed off some gloomy economic forecasts and packed into stores Friday after the Than...

24 Nov is Buy Nothing Day

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End of the High Street hunter-gatherer? By Julian Joyce, BBC News 23 Nov 07; "Shopping as sport" phenomenon has helped drive a wa...

Christmas trees going 'green' in Oregon

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Sarah Skidmore, Associated Press Yahoo News 24 Nov 07; Picking a Christmas tree is typically a matter of taste. Is the shape right? Is it t...

Our chicken comes from Brazil?

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Scouring the world for food, so prices stay stable Lee Siew Hua, Straits Times 24 Nov 07; How does Singapore scour the world for food? How ...

Waging war against infectious diseases

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Top scientist says S'pore can't be free of these diseases unless region does its part Shobana Kesava, Straits Times 24 Nov 07; INFE...

Urgent need to work together to fight new and old bugs

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Paul Tambyah, Straits Times 24 Nov 07; The economic impact of these emerging infections was considerable and the impact of the next will be...

Sharing H5N1 Viruses: "What's in it for us?"

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Sharing H5N1 Viruses to Stop a Global Influenza Pandemic The Poultry Sit e 23 Nov 07 As Asian countries have grown anxious about H5N1, and w...

WHO fails to reach deal on sharing bird flu virus

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Reuters 23 Nov 07; GENEVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Health officials have failed to reach agreement on a new system to ensure developing countrie...