Eaten up: what happens when all food runs out?

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Raj Patel's book Stuffed and Starved predicted the current global food crisis - spiralling food prices, starvation and obesity. Ed Pilki...

Biofuels Major Driver of Food Price Rise - World Bank

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Lesley Wroughton, PlanetArk 30 Jul 08 WASHINGTON - Large increases in biofuels production in the United States and Europe are the main reaso...

Time to encourage biomass growth

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David Williams, BBC Green Room 29 Jul 08; Biomass energy is being touted as a key player in the push to green Europe's electricity supp...

Brazil defends biofuel's merits

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Gary Duffy, BBC News 28 Jul 08; At the busy Sao Manoel ethanol plant, three hours drive from the city of Sao Paulo, the noise from the chur...

Hurricane Dolly may have shrunk Gulf 'dead zone'

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Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press Yahoo News 28 Jul 08; The oxygen-starved "dead zone" that forms every summer in the Gulf of ...

7-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

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Yahoo News 30 Jul 08; A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said...

Best of our wild blogs: 29 Jul 08

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The Animal Protector's Grant support for ideas to help animals in Singapore, closing date 14 Aug on the Habitatnews blog Feedback reques...

Wanted: Public's ideas for a greener Singapore

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Feedback from the ground to shape 10-year programme Tania Tan, Straits Times 29 Jul 08; SINGAPORE is embarking on a 10-year journey to buil...

Sustainable if costs don’t tip the scales

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Today Online 29 Jul 08; IN A picture-perfect Singapore, environmentally speaking, people would cycle not just to the nearest MRT station bu...

New scholarship to attract Singaporeans to water and environment sectors

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Margaret Perry, Channel NewsAsia 28 Jul 08; SINGAPORE: Financial help will soon be available for students wanting to pursue degrees in the ...

Green tax break for CNG cars: Call for firm ruling

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Straits Times 29 Jul 08; PLAYERS in the compressed natural gas (CNG) industry are lobbying for certainty in a tax policy governing cars tha...

Climate change will increase the erosion of coral reefs

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Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com 28 Jul 08; Coral reefs are particularly susceptible to climate change. Warming waters have been shown to bleach ...