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Indonesia Makes Startling Admission on Forests
Posted by Jakarta Globe: None Given on February 2nd, 2011
Jakarta Globe: Orangutans captured in Kalimantan province. The primates, searching for food, were captured in Sungai Pinyuh village and beaten, resulting in the death of one orangutan late last year. Indonesia admitted on Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests and threatened species. (Reuters Photo/Ferry Latif)
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Malaysia destroying its forests three times faster than all Asia combined
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Telegraph: The pictures also show that its carbon-rich peat soils of the Sarawak coast are being stripped even faster than its rainforests.
A report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International says Malaysia is uprooting an average two per cent of the rainforest a year on Sarawak, its largest state on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10 per cent over the last five years.
Most of it is being converted to palm oil plantations, it said.
The deforestation rate for all of Asia during the...
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Comments Off on Malaysia destroying its forests three times faster than all Asia combinedMalaysia rapidly destroying forests for palm oil: Group
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Reuters: Malaysia, the world's second largest palm oil producer, is destroying large areas of carbon-rich peatswamp forests to expand plantations, a leading conservation group said on Tuesday.
Wetlands International and Dutch remote sensing institute Sarvision said palm oil plantations are being expanded largely in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo island.
"Unless this trend is halted, none of these forests will be left at the end of this decade," said the report released on Tuesday.
It said...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Malaysia rapidly destroying forests for palm oil: GroupEPA to limit rocket fuel chemical in tap water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first federal drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said that setting the standard will protect public health and spark new technologies to clean up drinking water. Based on monitoring conducted from 2001 to 2005, 153 drinking water sources in 26 states...
EPA to limit rocket fuel chemical in tap water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first federal drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said that setting the standard will protect public health and spark new technologies to clean up drinking water. Based on monitoring conducted from 2001 to 2005, 153 drinking water sources in 26 states...
Hanoi to become the latest destination on world eco-cities list
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Independent: Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was awarded a commission to develop Hanoi's first "green tech corridor," merging two existing villages and cutting the area's carbon emissions.
The firm, designer of the re-development of Canary Wharf in London and the Eastern Harbor in Alexandria, was awarded the project during the week ending January 30.
The development plan for the Vietnamese city involves the redevelopment of two villages to create a miniature city roughly 180 hectares...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Hanoi to become the latest destination on world eco-cities listMalaysian palm oil destroying forests, report warns
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Guardian: Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, is destroying large areas of carbon-rich peat swamp forests to expand plantations, according to a report released late yesterday.
The report from Wetlands International said palm oil plantations are being greatly expanded, largely in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo island.
Unless the trend is halted, none of these forests will be left by the end of this decade, said Marcel Silvius, a senior scientist at Wetlands International....
Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Posted by People Daily: None Given on February 2nd, 2011
People Daily: Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Indonesian farming ministry is preparing three kinds of rice seeds to secure the sustainability of rice deposit in the country in anticipating the impact of climate change issue, a minister said here on Wednesday.
Indonesian Farming Minister Siswono said that those three rice seeds are apparently adaptive to extreme natural conditions related to climate change phenomenon. Those three paddy seeds were code named Inpara,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: ministerIndonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Posted by Xinhua News Agency: None Given on February 2nd, 2011
Xinhua News Agency: Indonesian farming ministry is preparing three kinds of rice seeds to secure the sustainability of rice deposit in the country in anticipating the impact of climate change issue, a minister said here on Wednesday.
Indonesian Farming Minister Siswono said that those three rice seeds are apparently adaptive to extreme natural conditions related to climate change phenomenon. Those three paddy seeds were code named Inpara, Inpago and Inpari 13. The Inpara seeds is able to grow in extreme wet condition,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: ministerFloods in Brazil are a result of short-term planning
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Guardian: As I write, more than two weeks after the floods began in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, many communities remain isolated due to landslides on the main access roads.
More than 800 people died and thousands of people have been displaced in the state, according to official figures. One of the worst affected towns is Santa Rita. Dozens of families still depend on helicopters to deliver food, water, and emergency healthcare. In the town of Teresópolis, people are starting to clear...