Pertamina plans to build new refinery capacity

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Business Times 4 Jun 09; (JAKARTA) Indonesia's state oil firm Pertamina said yesterday it plans to build new refinery capacity totallin...

Green Boot Camp Puts Cities Through Their Paces

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Zaher Karp, PlanetArk 4 Jun 09; Energy efficiency has grown in popularity thanks in part to the Obama administration, bringing new attentio...

How Antarctica Got Its Ice

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Andrea Thompson, livescience.com Yahoo News 3 Jun 09; Antarctica is a massive block of ice today, but it used to more simply be a range of ...

El Nino odds said to rise above even

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Reuters 3 Jun 09; MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian farmers stand a greater-than-even chance of being hit by a drought-inducing weather patt...

Best of our wild blogs: 3 Jun 09

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Sentosa Shore Walk: 12 and 13 Jun 09 on the Adventures with the Naked Hermit Crabs blog Tropical East Asian forests under great threat An in...

Museum needs more space, better access

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Straits Times Forum 2 Jun 09; ON May 24, a Sunday, my family and I were at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at the National Univ...

Sea turtles, Tioman's New Attraction

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Norehan Saleh, Bernama 3 Jun 09; PULAU TIOMAN, June 3 (Bernama) -- The world renowned Pulau Tioman, famed for its breath-taking scenic tour...

NTU sets up Energy Research Institute, plans for more centres

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Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia 2 Jun 09; SINGHAPORE : The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is setting up a broad based multi-discipli...

Cyclist's death on Ubin ruled misadventure

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Elena Chong, Straits Times 3 Jun 09; MIDWAY cycling down a slope on Pulau Ubin, Madam Lee Yan Inn, 41, asked her teenage daughter if she wa...

Leading by an achievable example

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Mohamed Nasheed, BBC Green Room 2 Jun 09; A promise that the Maldives will go carbon-neutral in 10 years is not just good for PR, says the ...

Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change

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Aubrey Belford, Yahoo News 2 Jun 09; BOGOR, Indonesia (AFP) – An ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters pay to preserve...

Indonesia vows to stand up to Malaysia in clash over fishing in Ambalat

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Farouk Arnaz, April Aswadi, Nivell Rayda & Febriamy Hutapea, Jakarta Globe 3 Jun 09; As tension rose over the disputed Ambalat waters, ...