Massive ETimor land-for-biofuel plan raises hackles

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Yahoo News 24 Jun 08; East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable lan...

Conservation and banking groups team up for rainforest project

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Paul Eccleston, The Telegraph 24 Jun 08; The world's oldest conservation group has teamed up with a major banking group in a rainforest...

Economic giants' oil-guzzling unsustainable

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Michael Richardson, Straits Times 25 Jun 08; WHAT will happen to the price of oil and its supply if Asia's emerging economic giants, Ch...

Taxing time to stabilise climate

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Matt Prescott, BBC Green Room 24 Jun 08; We cannot continue using the atmosphere as a rubbish dump for greenhouse gas emissions, argues Mat...

Buoyed by Rain, Australia Wheat Farmers Chase Big Crops

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Michael Byrnes, PlanetArk 25 Jun 08; NARRABRI, Australia - Powerful lights eerily illuminate pitch-black paddocks as farmers sow newly rain...

Warming May Make 'Perfect Storm' of Disease

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Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience.com Yahoo News 25 Jun 08; A "perfect storm" of diseases can get unleashed by the kind of extreme swi...

World weather expert says El Nino, La Nina outlook mild

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Yahoo News 24 Jun 08; The World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday that 2008 was proving a year of respite from natural climatic phen...

Former UN sec-gen Annan calls for 'climate justice'

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Yahoo News 24 Jun 08; Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for 'climate justice', saying that it was polluters ...

Best of our wild blogs: 24 Jun 08

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Upcoming walk at the Chek Jawa boardwalk this sunday on the adventures with the naked hermit crabs blog A walk on Cyrene the Chek Jawa of th...

Barrier Reef 'no-take' zones see leap in fish numbers

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Rachel Nowak, NewScientist.com 23 Jun 08; A controversial decision to halt commercial and recreational fishing across vast areas of the Gre...

Singapore to share urban planning experience at summit

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Channel NewsAsia 23 Jun 08; SINGAPORE: Singapore will share its experience in urban planning and housing with cities which are facing simil...

Haze likely in next three months

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The cause: hotter weather plus burning activities in region; Singapore to run 2 new anti-haze programmes in Jambi, Indonesia Liaw Wy-Cin, St...