Best of our wild blogs: 19 Feb 10

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27 Feb (Sat): Screening of "End of the Line" and get the WWF Singapore Seafood Guide from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversit...

February's a dry, hot season in Singapore

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71 bush fires in first 2 weeks as rainfall set to be lowest ever for Feb Victoria Vaughan & Sujin Thomas, Straits Times 19 Feb 10; AN U...

Renewable-fuel energy output to fall short of ESC proposal

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It'll account for 2% of peak electricity demand by 2014, against 5% proposed Ronnie Lim, Business Times 19 Feb 10; POWER projects using...

Cool tool to cut energy needs in industrial sites

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Computer program helps planners to identify potential hot spots Grace Chua, Straits Times 19 Feb 10; INDUSTRIAL estates could well become c...

$15m for research into green shipping

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Straits Times 19 Feb 10; SHIPPING emissions are attracting greater attention in the climate change agenda as they are responsible for about...

Roving interactive exhibition on climate change to launch in January

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May Wong, Channel NewsAsia 18 Feb 10; SINGAPORE: Singaporeans can soon learn more about climate change through a roving interactive exhibit...

Singaporeans welcome key recommendations of Economic Strategies Committee

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Mustafa Shafawi, Channel NewsAsia 18 Feb 10; SINGAPORE: Singaporeans polled by the government feedback channel, REACH, have given high mark...

Pregnant rhino gives hope for Indonesian species

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Yahoo News 18 Feb 10; JAKARTA (AFP) – Conservationists Thursday hailed a breakthrough in efforts to save the critically endangered Sumatran...

‘Not our way’ to kill tigers

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Chan Li Leen, The Star 19 Feb 10; IPOH: A Perak orang asli leader believes that a tiger caught in a snare set up by the orang asli in Sungk...

Fires in Malaysia

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156ha of peat fires still burning in Johor and Sabah The Star 19 Feb 10; PENGGERANG: Scores of firemen are still battling several peat soil...

El Nino hurting drought-struck Philippine farms

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Yahoo News 18 Feb 10; MANILA (AFP) – The Philippines said Thursday that its farming industry could lose about 433 million dollars this year...

Indonesian NGOs call for moratorium on natural resource exploitation

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Antara 19 Feb 10; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Five non-governmental organizations have called on the government to temporarily stop issuing lic...