Can the world afford a middle class?

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More countries are pulling themselves out of poverty, placing greater demand on food supplies and natural resources. Moisés Naím, Los Angele...

Best of our wild blogs: 10 Feb 08

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Little Heron, hooked a tragic event on the bird ecology blog Butterfly pals a new blog about butterflies "An encomium to the lepidopter...

Singaporeans camping on the shores

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Taking in the sun, sand and sea over Chinese New Year Straits Times 10 Feb 08; THIS Chinese New Year holiday has been a super long weekend ...

CNY plants now food for butterflies

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Chinese New Year plants which do not get sold become grub for the butterflies at Sentosa's Butterfly Park & Insect Kingdom Tay Suan ...

Northern Mariana Islands ban on scuba-spear fishing helps wrasse population growth

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Rianne Pangelinan-Brown, Saipan Tribune 10 Feb 08; The CNMI is the only jurisdiction in the Pacific to ban scuba-spear fishing, which is se...

Tenth of China's forests damaged by blizzards

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Reuters 9 Feb 08; BEIJING (Reuters) - About one-tenth of China's forests were damaged by recent winter storms, the worst in at least fi...

Floods kill six in Indonesia

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Channel NewsAsia 9 Feb 08; JAKARTA : Six people were killed, dozens injured and hundreds forced to flee their homes after floods in Indones...

Best of our wild blogs: 9 Feb 08

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Hantu's Splendours on the wonderful creations blog and wildfilms blog and discovery blog (with the legend of Hantu) and manta blog a...

'Ocean thermostat can save coral'

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BBC News 8 Feb 08; Some coral reefs could be protected from the impacts of climate change by an "ocean thermostat", a study says....

Killer jellyfish population explosion warning

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 8 Feb 08; It could easily have been the role model for the terrifying creature in the film 'Alien'. A...

Ahmed Djoghlaf: Wrong planning kills biodiversity

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Straits Times 9 Feb 08; With the world in the grip of urbanisation, United Nations biodiversity chief Ahmed Djoghlaf, who visited Singapore...

Singapore faces hard choices over cost of going green

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Clarissa Oon, Straits Times 9 Feb 08; IN NEW Delhi, the city's entire fleet of 10,000 buses runs on compressed natural gas (CNG), which...