UN says lack of crop diversity threatens food supply

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Yahoo News 26 Oct 10; ROME (AFP) – The genetic diversity of the plants that we grow and eat could be lost forever due to climate change, th...

Plastic from Plants: Is It an Environmental Boon or Bane?

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Plant-based plastics are beginning to replace petroleum. But as the price drops and usage rises, will the advantages outweigh the disadvanta...

Asia rides the next wave of energy

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Business Times 27 Oct 10; Financial investment in clean energy firms and projects have been surging in recent times. JOYCE HOOI explains wh...

Taking on the land-grabbers

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IRIN Reuters AlertNet 26 Oct 10; LONDON, 26 October 2010 (IRIN) - Property developers in Indonesia and Thailand moved in quickly after the ...

Sneezin' in the Rain: New Monkey Is Discovered

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Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Yahoo News 26 Oct 10; A Photoshop reconstruction of the new snub-nosed monkey, based on a Yunnan snub-nosed m...

Calls to protect dugongs in Australia

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Daniel Bateman The Cairns Post 27 Oct 10; TRADITIONAL owners are putting their boats between illegal hunters and dugongs in an effort to st...

Best of our wild blogs: 26 Oct 10

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Oriental Dollarbirds@the Civic District from Life's Indulgences Third Linnaeus Lecture, Nagoya – ‘Biodiversity and Cities’ by Prof Tommy...

Heritage trees at Seletar Aerospace Park

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New aerospace hub to keep its roots Mature, heritage trees will be conserved Lester Kok Straits Times 26 Oct 10; AMID the bustling construc...

Singapore: Rain should keep haze at bay for next three days

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Maria Almenoar Straits Times 26 Oct 10; SINGAPORE is likely to be haze-free for the next three days, said the National Environment Agency (...

Malaysian oil palm planters need to do more checks to prevent forest fire and haze

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Hanim Adnan The Star 26 Oct 10; THE recurring forest fire in the oil palm concession area of Sumatra causing massive haze and air pollution...

Indonesian Ministry: No more haze in Riau

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Antara 25 Oct 10; Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Rain has helped extinguish forest and plantation fires in Riau Province, and cleared haze from th...

Commentaries on the haze

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Seeing through the haze to clear the air Letter from Goh Si Guim Today Online 26 Oct 10; I AM baffled that the annual haze has been describ...