Best of our wild blogs: 11 May 11

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1,000 fans of the Celebrating Singapore's Biodiversity facebook page! from Celebrating Singapore's Biodiversity! Red in eye and tem...

NEA builds up climate capabilities with MOU

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Rebecca Liu Business Times 11 May 11; THE National Environment Agency is moving ahead in its efforts to help Singapore build up its capabil...

Malaysia: Heat wave may last until September

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V. Shankar Ganesh and Rozanna Latiff New Straits Times 11 May 11; KUALA LUMPUR: The current heat wave and dry weather enveloping many parts...

First green body takes root in Malaysia

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Martin Carvalho The Star 11 May 11; PETALING JAYA: Emerging ecological consciousness has led several non-governmental organisations and ind...

Blind legless lizard species discovered in Cambodia

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Victoria Gill BBC News 10 May 11; Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in Cambodia, which has neither eyes nor legs. Neang Th...

Illegal bear bile trade rampant in Asia

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TRAFFIC 11 May 11; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11th May 2011—Poaching and illegal trade of bears, driven largely by the demand for bile, used i...

Indonesian police investigating four elephant deaths

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Antara 10 May 11; Bengkulu, Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Bengkulu police are investigating the death of four wild elephants in surrounding area ...

Ship sails in search of sustainable tuna

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Richard Black BBC News 10 May 11; Scientists are embarking on a two-month expedition in the Pacific aimed at finding ways to reduce the dam...

Japan disaster may delay Iceland fin whaling season

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Yahoo News 10 May 11; REYKJAVIK (AFP) – Iceland's fin whaling season may be delayed by the giant earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan,...

Electric cars take off in Norway

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Pierre-Henry Deshayes Yahoo News 10 May 11; OSLO (AFP) – They speed past gas guzzlers in traffic, ignore congestion charges and get city ce...

Japan to scrap nuclear power in favour of renewables

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The prime minister says Japan must 'start from scratch' and abandon its plan to obtain half its energy from atomic power Associated ...

Australia's Booming LNG Sector Poses Carbon Conundrum

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David Fogarty PlanetArk 11 May 11; Australia's rising liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports may make for bluer skies over Chinese power p...