Defying recession, Japan's green cars surge in popularity

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Kimiko De Freytas-tamura Yahoo News 4 Jun 09; TOKYO (AFP) – Defying the worst recession in decades, green cars in Japan are gaining ground ...

Mystery Ingredient Cleaning Earth's Atmosphere

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Christine Dell'Amore, National Geographic News 4 Jun 09; Mother Nature has a previously unknown cleaning agent that scrubs away toxic a...

Inuit village blames climate change for strange events

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Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press 4 Jun 09; PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut – The fish changed colour. New bird species were spotted. Two bridges ...

Pacific islands seek low-cost storm protection

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* Pacific states trying to protect crops, coasts * Cyclones seen as bigger threat for now than rising seas Alister Doyle, Reuters 4 Jun 09;...

Calling Earth from the Air: world release of green movie 'Home'

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Anne Chaon Yahoo News 4 Jun 09; PARIS (AFP) – World Environment Day on Friday sees the worldwide release of a movie billed by producers as ...

Gore says carbon capture boom unlikely across China

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Timothy Gardner, Reuters 4 Jun 09; NEW YORK (Reuters) - A carbon capture boom is unlikely near term in China, the world's top greenhous...

Best of our wild blogs: 4 Jun 09

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Searching for secret shores at East Coast on the wonderful creation blog Chek Jawa II: Spicy Red Ants, Chocolate Truffle Rocks and Spiders o...

Natural history needs more room in Singapore

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Prized exhibits are now tucked away at NUS, and space is also running out Victoria Vaughan, Straits Times 4 Jun 09; AMERICA'S Museum of...

Pulau Semakau: It’s a landfill – and an ecopark

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Singapore’s only landfill is more like a recreation area than a dumping ground. Vijaysree Venkatraman, The Christian Science Monitor 3 Jun ...

NTUC FairPrice gives out $350,000 in rebates to customers with own bags

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Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia 3 Jun 09; SINGAPORE : Singapore's largest supermarket chain, NTUC Fairprice, has given out more than S$...

New Research on Malaysia’s Odd, Elusive Tapir

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Anthony King, The New York Times 1 Jun 09; TAMAN NEGARA NATIONAL PARK, Malaysia — In the Malaysian and Sumatran rain forests, tapirs are ra...

Cetacean hotspots in the Philippines identified

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Jo. Florendo B. Lontoc, Manila Bulletin 3 Jun 09; Prof. Lemnuel V. Aragones of the UP Diliman Institute of Environmental Science and Meteor...