Best of our wild blogs: 3 Jul 08

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Updates on Cyrene Stars reaffirms that Cyrene Reef is an extremely important habitat for this locally endangered sea star, on the star track...

Call for regional effort to save pangolins

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Shobana Kesava, Straits Times 3 Jul 08; WITH China's appetite for exotic meats escalating, the pangolin, already an endangered species,...

New Aquatic Science Centre to open at Sungei Ulu Pandan by 2009

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Channel NewsAsia 2 Jul 08; SINGAPORE: Sungei Ulu Pandan is set to be the next hotspot for urban freshwater research in Singapore. It will h...

Dr Balakrishnan says Internet will change how politics is conducted

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Channel NewsAsia 2 Jul 08; SINGAPORE : Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan has said the Internet will ...

As temperatures rise, so do power bills

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Channel NewsAsia 2 Jul 08; SINGAPORE: Even as households are bracing for higher electricity bills, with the latest hike in power tariffs, s...

Penguin Chicks Frozen by Global Warming?

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John Roach, National Geographic News 2 Jul 08; This January—deep summer in Antarctica—explorer Jon Bowermaster suffered through a five-day ...

Tigers Vanish in Nepal

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LiveScience.com Yahoo News 2 Jul 08; Officials are alarmed by a plunging tiger population in the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, a r...

Extinction risks vastly underestimated: study

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Yahoo News 2 Jul 08; Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, acc...

Failing to Make Females, Reptile Could Go Extinct

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Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience.com Yahoo News 2 Jul 08; A world without females may not be worth living in. And in fact extinction would be imm...

True cost of the ocean heist: illegal fishing

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Richard Black, BBC News website 2 Jul 08; There is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world's poor countries -...

Some 1.5 Bln People May Starve Due to Land Erosion - FAO

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PlanetArk 3 Jul 08; MILAN - Rising land degradation reduces crop yields and may threaten food security of about a quarter of the world' ...

First floods, now pesky mosquitoes for Midwest

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Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press Yahoo News 2 Jul 08; First came the floods — now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pesteri...