Best of our wild blogs: 10 Jul 10

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Venus Drive - COLUGO! from Diary of a Boy wandering through Our Little Urban Eden A Quiet Evening @ Daily Farm Nature Park from Beauty of Fa...

Petronas Takes Emergency Measures After Oil Sheen Found off Malaysia's East Coast

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Bernama 9 Jul 10; KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 (Bernama) -- Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has taken emergency measures to shut down production ...

MPs to seek explanations for recent floods

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Chong Zi Liang Straits Times 10 Jul 10; AT LEAST five Members of Parliament will ask the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources t...

Bee menace reported in several estates

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Jeremy Koh Channel NewsAsia 9 Jul 10; SINGAPORE : Beehives have been creating some buzz in the estates in Singapore. One of them was in Woo...

Mangroves do a coast good: study of Indonesian tsunami-hit coastline

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Intact swaths of trees reduce tsunami damage, a new study suggests Sid Perkins Science News 17 Jul issue Field studies of an Indonesian coa...

On a noble mission to save tigers in Malaysia

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Tan Ju-Eng, The Star 10 Jul 10; TEN young people – aged 20 to 28 — from different academic backgrounds and training, went on an expedition ...

Indonesian Government Looks to Earn Its Stripes in Bali With Plans to Rescue Sumatran Tigers

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Fidelis E Satriastanti Jakarta Globe 7 Jul 10; Having already lost two of its indigenous tiger species, Indonesia is now looking for money ...

Cargill, WWF to assess palm oil suppliers in Indonesia

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Antara 9 Jul 10; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Cargill is collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. (WWF) to undertake an assessment of it...

Europe's fishing industry 'unsustainable' as stocks drop

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Today marks 'fish dependence day' – where our appetite for seafood means we have to deplete other countries' resources David Ada...

U.S. farmers can't meet booming corn demands

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Charles Abbott Reuters 9 Jul 10; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exporters, livestock feeders and ethanol makers are going through the U.S. corn sto...

Drought destroys millions of hectares of Russian crops: government

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Yahoo News 9 Jul 10; MOSCOW (AFP) – Drought has destroyed nine million hectares (22 million acres) of crops in Russia and a state of emerge...

US to feel more heat, more often in coming years: study

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Karin Zeitvogel Yahoo News 9 Jul 10; WASHINGTON (AFP) – Targets set by policy makers to slow global warming are too soft to prevent more he...