Best of our wild blogs: 15 Feb 09

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Some thoughts on bird photographers on the Bird Ecology Study Group blog Happy Valentine's Day how the wild ones do the wild thing on th...

When a forest builds a community

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New Straits Times 15 Feb 09; WHAT enticed Jeffrey Phang to make Kota Damansara his home was its proximity to a green lung that could offer ...

Manila Bay whale death points to serious problems

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Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, Manila Times 15 Feb 09; NOT all ends well for stranded whales. The stranded melon-headed whales saved off Bataan were...

World Heritage site in Singapore?

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One Singaporean thinks so and his campaign has triggered a lively debate Tan Dawn Wei, Straits Times 15 Feb 09; Malaysia has three, Thailan...

66 rats killed in blitz at Skate Park

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Shuli Sudderuddin, Straits Times 15 Feb 09; You could say the rodents were cornered like rats - all 66 of them. The casualty count - after ...

Climate change could be even worse than feared

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Mira Oberman Yahoo News 15 Feb 09; CHICAGO (AFP) – It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not b...

US 'sea change' on climate talks: EU, UN

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Patrice Novotny Yahoo News 13 Feb 09; TOKYO (AFP) – Top UN and EU climate officials said Friday they saw a "sea change" in the Un...

Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction, Stanford researcher warns

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EurekAlert 14 Feb 09; Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a pos...

US clings to coal energy but wants it clean

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Germain Moyon Yahoo News 14 Feb 09; HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) – Wedded to its mining industry, the United States is counting on carbon-dioxide c...

Biotechnology's potential barely exploited: scientists

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Jean-louis Santini Yahoo News 15 Feb 09; CHICAGO (AFP) – New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormou...

Spain's Adria unveils food of tomorrow

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Gilles Campion Yahoo News 12 Feb 09; TOKYO (AFP) – Spanish chef Ferran Adria, the father of so-called molecular gastronomy, has always been...

Mangrove planting helps Filipino seaweed farmers in crisis

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Dyborrhae Jewel M. Reyes, ABS-CBN Zamboanga 14 Feb 09; ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Arnold Suyco has been a seaweed farmer for 15 years. This year, he...