Best of our wild blogs: 19 Oct 10

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28 Oct (Thu): Green Drinks: An improvised group exploration of our consumption and implications for change from Green Drinks Singapore Monk...

Singapore to go 'green', with or without global agreement: Dr Yaacob

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Esther Ng Today Online 19 Oct 10; SINGAPORE - In the absence of a global agreement, Singapore will still take steps to implement energy-eff...

UN meeting on saving species opens in Japan

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Malcolm Foster, Associated Press Yahoo News 18 Oct 10; TOKYO – Delegates from more than 190 nations kicked off a U.N. conference Monday aim...

E. O. Wilson, Harrison Ford Ask You to Give a Damn About Biodiversity

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Dave Mosher Wired Science 18 Oct 10; With 40 years of work in the biological sciences, two Pulitzer prizes and the equivalent of a Nobel Pr...

Coral death strikes at Southeast Asia

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Science Alert 19 Oct 10; International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which ...

Indian Ocean coral reefs fading fast: 2010 expedition findings

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IUCN 15 Oct 10; IUCN scientists were part of a recent expedition, Tara Oceans, to investigate coral bleaching on the reefs of Mayotte, an i...

Indonesian government to stop allowing conversion of primary, peatland forests

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Antara 18 Oct 10; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government is to stop issuing permits for conversion of primary forest zones and peatland for...

On fire: 5,000 hectares of peat land in Riau

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Antara 18 Oct 10; Pekanbaru, Riau (ANTARA News) - The Environmental Board (BLH) of Riau Province said that the acreage of peat land that ha...

Rajang River is drying up: "partly due the Bakun Dam"

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Philip Hi The Star 19 Oct 10; SIBU: Less than two weeks after the logjam disaster in Rajang River, the country’s longest river is again a c...

Britain sinks tidal scheme, names eight future nuclear sites

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Yahoo News 18 Oct 10; LONDON (AFP) – The British government confirmed on Monday it will drop plans for a multi-billion-pound tidal energy p...

US oil spill hit a key tuna spawning site: agency

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Yahoo News 18 Oct 10; PARIS (AFP) – Numbers of juvenile Atlantic tuna at a major spawning site in the Gulf of Mexico probably fell by at le...

Conditions not met for climate deal in Cancun: Mexico

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Yahoo News 18 Oct 10; MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said Monday that "conditions have not been met...