Companies not cutting "green" IT spending: survey

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Reuters 16 Apr 09; LONDON (Reuters) - Most businesses are keeping up efforts to improve the energy efficiency of their information technolo...

Electric dream machines: Are they really the future of motoring?

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UK motorists will be given £5,000 to switch to electric cars, but are they really the future of motoring? Martin Hickman, The Independent 1...

Australia launches 'clean coal' institute

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Yahoo News 16 Apr 09; CANBERRA (AFP) – Australia has launched what it described as a major initiative to develop clean coal technology, say...

Growing wind, solar power challenge U.S. grid: study

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Eileen O'Grady, Reuters 16 Apr 09; HOUSTON (Reuters) - The push to add more renewable wind and solar megawatts to the U.S. electric mix...

Oslo sets limit on Arctic seabed, short of North Pole

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Alister Doyle, Reuters 16 Apr 09; OSLO (Reuters) - Norway became on Wednesday the first Arctic state to agree limits to its northern seabed...

Best of our wild blogs: 16 Apr 09

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“The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity” by Sodhi et al on the Biodiversity crew @ NUS blog Animals Unrestrained: Sungei...

Live animals sold in supermarkets: It's unhygienic and cruel, says SPCA

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Teh Jen Lee, The New Paper 16 Apr 09; LIVE animals don't belong in supermarkets - for two reasons. This is the response of the Society ...

Email hoax on earthquake, tsunami in Asia on July 22

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Tan Yew Guan, Channel NewsAsia 15 Apr 09; SINGAPORE: An email is going around warning about an impending earthquake and tsunami hitting par...

Dengue cases on the rise

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There were 1,526 cases in first 13 weeks of the year; anti-dengue drive launched in Clementi Leow Si Wan, Straits Times 16 Apr 09; WITH war...

New eco-friendly facility to cut SPH storage costs

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Alvin Foo, Straits Times 16 Apr 09; MULTIMEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) unveiled a new $5.5 million eco-friendly warehouse at i...

Singapore, Nanjing to build new eco-city

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Straits Times 16 Apr 09; HONG KONG: Singapore will embark on another joint eco-city project in China following a ground-breaking ceremony t...

Vietnam PM halts controversial hotel in park: govt

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Hotel is joint venture with Singapore company Yahoo News 15 Apr 09; HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam's prime minister has stopped a 40-million-dol...