Best of our wild blogs: 2 Aug 08

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An Activist’s Confession some inspiring and thoughtful insights on the It's Getting Hot In Here blog Random Wish list some green wishes ...

Polluted beaches: Health warnings push water sports under

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Water sports bodies scramble to find alternative venues for regular activities Shobana Kesava & Daryl Tan, Straits Times 2 Aug 08; WATE...

Singapore detects 3 new cases of chikungunya fever

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Channel NewsAsia 2 Aug 08; SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) said there are new three cases of chikungunya fever involving two foreig...

Singapore's urban identity: Creating islands of history in a sea of change

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Ooi Giok Ling, Straits Times 2 Aug 08; THE more things change, the more they become the same. Globalisation has led to essentially the same...

Sumatra hot spots spell hazy days ahead

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Dry weather and fires burning in Indonesia are bad news for Singapore Tania Tan in Singapore & Salim Osman in Jakarta, Straits Times 2 ...

Developers must take own initiatives to go green: Leng Joo

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CDL MD says it's not sustainable to have long-term govt subsidies Jamie Lee, Business Times 2 Aug 08; DEPENDING on the government for m...

East Timor opens first national park

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Yahoo News 1 Aug 08; East Timor opened its first national park Friday, turning a remote former rebel stronghold into a conservation area of...

Brazil launches ambitious fund for Amazon forest

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Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Ana Nicolaci da Costa, Reuters 1 Aug 08; RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula...

Aral sea rescue plan a 'partial success'

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Juliette Jowit, guardian.co.uk 1 Aug 08; One of the 20th century's great ecological disasters has been partly reversed, according to a ...

Japanese tuna fishermen halt operations to boost stock

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Yahoo News 1 Aug 08; Japanese tuna fishermen on Friday temporarily suspended operations in a bid to revive stocks that are rapidly declinin...

A month without plastic

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Christine Jeavans, BBC News 2 Aug 08; I am giving up plastic for the whole of August. By this I mean not buying or accepting anything which...

Conservation no longer a farming priority

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BBC News 2 Aug 08; The EU's response to the food crisis is to encourage greater production - meaning conservation is much less of a pri...