Best of our wild blogs: 26 Sep 08

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Seagrass monitoring at Tuas on the teamseagrass blog Common fruit bat on the urban forest blog Oriental Pratincole: Adult and juvenile on th...

NParks helps Vietnam develop urban tree systems

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Singapore firm helps Da Nang with urban tree planting VietNamNet Bridge 26 Sep 08; Central Da Nang City has announced that Singapore’s Nati...

Go car-free during F1 season

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Letter from Micheal Chiam, Today Online 26 Sep 08; MONDAY was Car-Free Day in Seoul, during which vehicles were restricted to certain roads...

How a green town can make money: SM Goh

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Senior Minister Goh sees eco-city as financial, R&D and training hub Lin Yanqin, Today Online 26 Sep 08; BEFORE the first spade goes in...

Singapore's first 'clean coal' power plant to be built

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Tuas Power to build $2b 'clean' plant It will be first here to run on clean coal and biomass Clarissa Oon, Straits Times 26 Sep 08;...

Biggest solar set-up in Singapore ready next year

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NORWEGIAN firm Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has yet to start operations at its Singapore plant, but some of its solar modules have alr...

13 more chikungunya cases in Singapore

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Straits Times 26 Sep 08; ANOTHER 13 cases of chikungunya have surfaced over the past week. Six were imported cases, most likely from Johor....

Singapore on track to complete Changi race circuit

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Ilsa Chan, ChannelnewsAsia 25 Sep 08; SINGAPORE: Singapore is on track to complete its first permanent race circuit in Changi by 2011. Teo ...

Island nation president plans for extinction

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Sea level rise may produce Pacific islander refugees Alvin Powell, Harvard University 25 Sep 08; The leader of the South Pacific island nat...

Half of Europe's frogs face extinction

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Steve Connor, The Independent 25 Sep 08; More than half of all amphibian species in Europe could become extinct by 2050 because of a combin...

Sun bears of Malaysia: driven to extinction

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Habitat destruction, logging, wildlife trade drive sun bears toward extinction Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com 25 Sep 08; Industrial logging,...

The Sunderbans: 'There are many tiger widows here'

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In the Sunderbans forests between India and Bangladesh, climate change is pitting people against tigers - with deadly consequences. John Vid...