Best of our wild blogs: 4 Dec 10

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An Intimate Millipede Moment from Macro Photography in Singapore Javan Myna confronts a monitor lizard from Bird Ecology Study Group Gobies ...

Attempt to smuggle sand into Singapore foiled

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The Star 4 Dec 10; PORT KLANG: The Selangor Customs managed to foil attempts to smuggle sand worth RM144,000 into Singapore by intercepting...

Can Singapore buildings withstand quakes?

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More time needed for studies on impact of regional tremors Christopher Tan Straits Times 4 Dec 10; JUST how vulnerable buildings in Singapo...

Vietnam's planned sale of tiger paste protested

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Yahoo News 3 Dec 10; HANOI, Vietnam – A local conservation group voiced opposition Friday to the planned sale of tiger paste by Vietnamese ...

Seahorses of Sydney Harbour

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Gently does it: seahorses take a bath in their new home Kelsey Munro Sydney Morning Herald 4 Dec 10; HOW things have changed. Veteran scuba...

Jane Goodall on the Cancún climate change summit: Protect our forests to protect people too

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We must consider setting an explicit time frame for protecting forests and halting their rapid degradation Jane Goodall guardian.co.uk 3 De...

American west's forests face troubling carbon trend

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Kerry Sheridan Yahoo News 3 Dec 10; WASHINGTON (AFP) – Crippled by drought, scorched by wildfires and dying from beetle infestations, fores...

The Middle East prays for rain as weather threatens drought

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Fanny Carrier Yahoo News 3 Dec 10; NICOSIA (AFP) – Israeli firefighters are battling a deadly forest fire as unseasonably warm weather blan...

Making forests pay in a warming world

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David Fogarty Reuters 3 Dec 10; SEMPIT, Indonesia (Reuters) - Deep in the flooded jungles of southern Borneo, muddy peat oozes underfoot li...

Climate: a million deaths a year by 2030 - study

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Richard Ingham Yahoo News 3 Dec 10; CANCUN, Mexico (AFP) – By 2030, climate change will indirectly cause nearly one million deaths a year a...

Deadlock on climate talks will hike business costs-Indonesia

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* Environment ministers meeting in Cancun, Mexico * More costs for businesses as standards proliferate * Palm oil sales face multiple hurdle...

Latin bloc scolds rich countries at climate talks

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Karl Ritter, Associated Press Yahoo News 4 Dec 10; CANCUN, Mexico – A bloc of Latin American countries issued a stern warning to rich natio...