Bangkok market a hub for illegal international trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises

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IUCN website 24 Apr 08; Thailand is a major hub for the international trade in illegal freshwater turtles and tortoises, finds a new report...

Winners of UNEP Champions of the Earth Awards 2008 Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change

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Catalysts for the Global Green Economy Honored at Gala Evening in Singapore UNEP website 22 Apr 08; Singapore/Nairobi, 22 April 2008 - Seve...

Environment documentaries drawing crowds

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Shannon L. Bowen, Yahoo News 22 Apr 08; In 1997, Louisiana native Josh Tickell did something many recent college graduates do: He took a ro...

Are Big High-Tech Companies Green Hypocrites?

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Tom Spring, PC World Yahoo News 22 Apr 08; In laboratory tests analyzing components inside the iPhone, Greenpeace found that device contain...

Best of our wild blogs: 25 Apr 08

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Searching for spawning on Sentosa on the wildfilms blog Echinoderm hunt and TeamSeagrass exhibition featuring poor baby Bruce and other oddi...

Rice Crisis: Rising prices' whirlwind effect

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Tion Kwa, Staits Times 25 Apr 08; HIGH energy prices pose a monumental challenge to economic growth. Everyone knows this. But high food pri...

Biofuel not the main culprit behind rising food prices

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G Panicker, Business Times 25 Apr 08; BIOFUEL is getting a bad rap. A formidable array of critics, including the World Bank and the United ...

Rice situation in Singapore and globally

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Rice price hits new high on global markets Local traders to ease impact, but warn of increases ahead Straits Times 25 Apr 08; BANGKOK - THE...

Desalting seawater to meet water needs may hold promise

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Yahoo News 24 Apr 08; There's probably a place for desalted seawater in meeting the nation's future water needs, but research is ne...

Artificially cooling Earth may prove perilous: study

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Yahoo News 24 Apr 08; Radical proposals to inject sulfur particles into the Earth's stratosphere to cool it down and battle global warm...

Shrimp industry blasted for "modern-day slavery"

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Paul Eckert, Reuters 23 Apr 08; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abuses of shrimp industry workers in Thailand and Bangladesh constitute "modern...

Where do my prawns come from?

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A wise course of action? Fred Pearce, The Guardian 23 Apr 08; Prawns are partly responsible for the present food crisis in Bangladesh, Viet...