30 May 2005:
China
Oceanic info system to be in place by 2009
CHINA will give more support to research and the studying of its marine resources, marine officials said.
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China
Queen Sturgeon Recovering, Starts Taking Food
The Chinese sturgeon "queen," recently moved to the Beijing Aquarium, has recovered her normal appetite after a dramatic weight loss caused the public to worry about her survival.
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China-Japan
China, Japan Cooperate in Verification of Environmental Signs
China and Japan have agreed to cooperate in the verification of environmental signs marked on exported goods of either country.
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Japan
Japan to offer hand-up to ASEAN partners
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will release a comprehensive Asian assistance plan, including a fund to promote free trade agreements in the region, at a summit meeting of East Asian leaders to be held in December in Malaysia, Foreign Ministry sources said Sunday.
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Philippines
Saving the La Mesa Dam watershed
The 33-hectare La Mesa Dam watershed used to be a lush old growth forest whose trees effectively caught and stored the rains brought by the normal 33 or more monsoons that hit Metro Manila each year. But years of neglect and abandon had decimated the forest substantially, thereby affecting the watershed’s capacity to catch and store rains and spilling the water to the dam. The watershed continues to be under the supervision of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System.
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Philippines
UAE official urges RP to export more fishery products
d news to Filipino exporters of fishery products: the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries consider all fishery products as "halal" or food allowed by Islamic laws and is therefore looking for increased supply of these products.
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Philippines
Ulang has good business potentials — BFAR study
There’s a big money in the production of ulang (freshwater prawn).
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Philippines
18 mariculture parks established so far
Eighteen mariculture park and zones have been established in various parts of the country.
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General/World
Hunting Tasmania's extinct 'tiger'
They come out as soon as the sun goes down on the Australian island state of Tasmania.
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Global Warming
G8 will not set targets to cut global warming
The G8 summit is to discuss the role of nuclear power in reducing climate change - but it is not preparing to set new targets or a timetable to reduce global warming, according to a leaked document.
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Whaling
Experts consider Japanese whaling proposal
The Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is meeting in South Korea, ahead of the IWC's five-day annual meeting there later next month, with the debate between whaling and anti-whaling nations on the resumption of commercial whaling expected to be a key issue.
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Whaling
Lobbyists square up over whaling
Greenpeace activists are occupying the site of a proposed whale meat factory in Ulsan, South Korea, ahead of talks on the state of the world's whale stocks.
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27 May 2005:
China
Save Water with Smart Pricing System
The publication of the first guideline on the development of water-efficient technology marks a significant step forward in China's efforts to tackle its water shortage.
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China
Qomolangma Garbage Clean-up
Nearly 100 environmental protection volunteers are working on Mount Qomolangma until June 5, World Environment Day, to clean up garbage left by visitors.
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China
China's Yellow River plagued by pollution
BEIJING (Reuters) -- Most of the Yellow River, the second-longest in China and the cradle of early Chinese civilization, is so polluted it is not safe for drinking or swimming, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
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Indonesia
Part 2 of 2: Revisiting our foreign policy
Remember: What makes Indonesia great and relevant is that, we have a brand of nationalism that is open, confident, moderate, tolerant and outward looking. And as our nation grows, we must make sure that we strengthen this brand of nationalism.
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Laos
Survey team stumble on rare crocodiles in Laos
VIENTIANE — A small breeding population of Siamese crocodiles has been discovered by a survey team in Savannakhet Province, southern Laos.
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Philippines
No counterpart fund for Bicol watershed project
NAGA CITY—A World Bank-funded watershed development project in Bicol region is in danger of being derailed by the government’s failure to provide counterpart funding.
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Philippines
Water-saving device wins science award
Every living creature on this planet is sustained by water but about 3.4 million people, most of whom are children, die of water-related diseases every year according to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics. It is estimated that 2.4 billion people, over one-third of world population, lack access to adequate sanitation, and about 1.1 billion people have limited or totally lack access to improved water sources, Earthday Network said.
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Philippines
Realities of tsunami
Watching the effects of tsunami on television is one thing, observing directly what tsunami does to humans and the environment is another. I found this out on a recent visit to the southern Indian city of Chennai. Chennai is situated on the southeastern part of India bordering the Bay of Bengal, and was affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed thousands of people on December 26, 2004.
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Viet Nam
Scientists petition UNESCO for Ba Be heritage inclusion
Vietnamese scientists and managers have been preparing scientific dossiers on the Ba Be national park for submittal to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), to request that the park be declared a world natural heritage site.
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Viet Nam
Delta animal breeders degrade environment
People in the Hong ( Red ) River Delta are facing environmental problems as a result of improved economic growth including livestock breeding and increasing livestock population size.
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Asia
Mekong ministers to meet in Shanghai
MANILA — Environment ministers from the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries – Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam – will meet in Shanghai next week.
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Asia
ADB warns Asia to protect its environment
May 25: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned today that the region must do more to protect its environment, calling on the private sector to help alleviate the tremendous pressures of rapid economic growth.
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General/World
Fish Oil Fights Smog's Effect on Heart
THURSDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Daily supplements of fatty acid-rich fish oil may counteract the effects of air pollution on the heart, researchers report.
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General/World
Growing Cabbage Without Pesticides
Now farmers can grow cabbages without the use of pesticides at a much lower cost and an increased yield of Sh 21,000 per hectare.
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General/World
Climate change likely to increase famine: FAO
Global warming is likely to significantly diminish food production in many countries and greatly increase the number of hungry people, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says.
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General/World
Cattle movement key to TB spread
Badgers have long been blamed for the spread of TB in UK herds and the government has threatened a cull if further studies back this up.
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General/World
New Monkey Species Discovered in East Africa
Scientists have discovered a new monkey species in the mountains of East Africa.
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25 May 2005:
China
Thousand Endangered Amphibians Released
One thousand artificially bred giant salamanders, a rare amphibian, were freed into streams in Jing'an County, east China's Jiangxi Province on Monday, to increase its population in the wild.
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China
Wetland's Fire Rings the Alarm
An enormous fire two months ago in China's Zhalung Nature Reserve, a major wetland protection project in the country and in the world, drawing the public's attention again to the protection of nature reserves in China.
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China
China Ratifies Protocol on Biosafety
China has ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which regulates the international trade of genetically modified organisms (GMO), the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) announced on Thursday.
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Japan
Photo in the News: Standing Panda Is Big in Japan
May 24, 2005—Futa, a two-year-old lesser panda is bringing Japanese zoogoers to their feet with his rare ability to stand, human style, for about ten seconds at a time. "We have kept lesser pandas for nearly 20 years at this zoo, but I have not seen one like Futa, which can stand for such a long time," Chiba Zoological Park official Hiroyuki Asano told the AFP news agency.
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Malaysia
Power in your palm
Fuel for cars will in future not only be pumped from the ground, but grown. Farmed crops such as soybean, rapeseed, corn and sunflower can yield oils that can be processed into diesel. Cane sugar, on the other hand, can produce sugars that can be distilled into ethanol – another proven car fuel.
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Malaysia
Energy security
The main driving force for developing biofuels is energy security, ecology and agriculture support for rural areas. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, the European Union last year set a target whereby biofuels will account for 2% of all fuel sales, and the figure will rise to 5.75% by 2010.
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Malaysia
Quakes may take months to die down, say experts
PETALING JAYA: Earthquakes that are being detected almost daily off Sumatra’s west coast may continue for quite some time yet.
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Viet Nam
Vietnamese fishing in troubled waters
HO CHI MINH CITY - "Never in my life have I seen these prices for anchovies!" said Sau Tinh, owner of Thanh Quoc - a factory producing fermented fish sauce at Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam's Kien Giang province.
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General/World
Can the Moon Cause Earthquakes?
Coast dwellers are accustomed to the daily rhythm of the tides, which are primarily lulled in and out by the gentle gravitational tug of the moon. Some scientists wonder whether the moon's tugging may also influence earthquake activity.
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Whaling Activities
International law won't stop whale hunt: Howard
Australia would probably not succeed in stopping Japan's whaling activities through the international justice system, Prime Minister John Howard has told Parliament.
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Whaling Activities
Japanese sister cities to be asked to fight whaling plan
Port Stephens council, on the New South Wales central coast, will ask its Japanese sister cities to lobby against Japan's push to hunt more whales for "scientific research".
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23 May 2005:
China
Glacier on Tibet-Qinghai Plateau Melting Fast
The glacier on Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southwest China is quickly disappearing, Chinese scientists have said.
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China
Wildlife Conservation Heroes Honored
The first non-governmental organization (NGO) award for wildlife conservation, the China Wildlife Conservation Award, sponsored by the China Environmental Protection Foundation (CEPF) and US-based WildAid, was granted to five Chinese individuals and collectives in Beijing on Thursday.
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Malaysia
Rare tree at risk of extinction
KUALA LUMPUR: A species of tree unique to the Kinta-Manjung area in Perak is under threat of extinction because of encroaching development.
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Malaysia
Green meet
Is the rate of development in the country sustainable? Can Malaysians improve their quality of life without further degrading the environment?
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Malaysia
Economics of environmentalism
The Similan Islands, Thailand's premier dive destination, were bruised but not battered by the tsunami.
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Philippines
Bankers explain why they have gone green
WHY banks are into green activities was discussed at the recent forum on "The Greening of the Financial Sector."
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Philippines
Give Mother Earth a chance for renewal
After five months of the three consecutive typhoons last December 2004 which wrought havoc in Aurora, Quezon and Nueva Ecija killing thousands of people, displacing millions more and damaging millions worth of properties and agricultural produce.
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Philippines
Mindanao political, religious leaders seek lifting of log ban
Several religious and political leaders from Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga City, Sultan Kudarat, Kidapawan and Cotabato City have asked President Arroyo to lift the logging moratorium in selected areas of Mindanao as they cited the need to fully promote sustainable development of the forests for the benefit of their constituents.
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Philippines
Celebrate biodiversity, celebrate life
The country’s possession of the largest eagle in the world, heaviest bat in the world, with the largest wings smallest edible fish in the world, largest flower in the world, smallest primateamong other finds — has put the Philippines on the map of tropical countries with an abundant cache of natural treasures. More than statistics though, the amazing biodiversity of plants and animals life translates to a valuable collectioncollection that offers immeasurable benefits to humankind. to any population.
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Philippines
Waste in beaches other than Boracay being eyed, too
ASIDE from the popular island-resort of Boracay, the government also wants to ensure that the water quality in the country's other top beaches remains acceptable for bathing.
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Viet Nam
Environmental contest receives 14 VN entries
A total of 1,500 entries have been received worldwide for this year’s contest on innovative, future-oriented, and effective sustainable construction projects organised by Holcim Foundation.
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General/World
Antarctic buffers sea level rise
The ice sheet covering the interior of Antarctica is thickening, researchers report in the journal Science.
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General/World
Earth's species feel the squeeze
If we continue with current rates of species extinction, we will have no chance of rolling back poverty and the lives of all humans will be diminished.
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General/World
Phone technology tracks dolphins
Dolphins in South Africa are being issued with mobile phone technology.
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20 May 2005:
China
Domestic threats to China's rise
The general consensus is that China will gradually emerge as a power in East Asia able to challenge the United States for regional dominance. In preparation, every country facing the prospect of Beijing's wake is reassessing its strategic options in order to gain the best position possible after China sails ahead. Japan is looking for methods to challenge China's rising military power in the region and may amend its constitution in order to see this through. The 10 Association of Southeast Nations states are pursuing a strategy of interlocking their economies with China's, while looking to the US and India for balance and leverage. South Korea is moving closer to Beijing, though it will continue to rely on its special relationship with Washington. Washington's current National Security Strategy sees about a decade of opportunity for the US to act in order to achieve permanent security dominance in the region before China will be able to block such an effort.
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China
Rare Birds Dine out at Fishermen's Expense
Song Baoquan, a villager who makes living by breeding spectacular fish in Tangdazhuang Village in Tongzhou District of Beijing, gets up at 5 AM to shoot off firecrackers near his ponds.
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China
Building Green Roofs
Roofs should be better utilized for the city's greenness and freshness, says an article in the People's Daily Overseas Edition. An excerpt follows:
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Indonesia
Indonesia eyes quick tsunami warning by end 2006
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia hopes to have an early warning system able to issue tsunami alerts within five minutes on quake-prone Sumatra by the end of next year, and an integrated network covering the country by 2010, a senior official said.
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General/World
Louisiana's frozen ark
The electronic metal gates closed ominously behind us as we entered the exotic world of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, just outside New Orleans.
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Tokyo
Tokyo governor stirs reef dispute
The governor of Tokyo is travelling to a group of tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean, to push Japan's claim over an extended economic zone.
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Viet Nam
Deputy PM calls for devising plans for managing disasters
HA NOI — Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan yesterday called on scientists and experts of Asian countries to share experiences on and devise policies and measures to prevent and mitigate damages caused by natural disasters.
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16 May 2005:
China
Largest-ever Oceanic Survey in High Gear
A comprehensive survey on China's vast areas of inland waters, and marine belts has gone in high gear in an attempt to sort and count the country's marine resources, said the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) in Beijing on Saturday.
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Malaysia
Maritime agency to start operations in November
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) will start operations in November when the recruitment and training of staff are completed, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
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Philippines
LLDA, private sector team up to rid Taguig of janitor fish
The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) held the second Janitor Fish Catching Competition in Napindan, Taguig City, recently.
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Philippines
RP wind atlas completed
The country now has a wind atlas (collection of maps).
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Philippines
Banks go green but not the color of money
BANKS don't cause pollution, so why do they have to follow environmental regulations?
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Viet Mam
Delta animal breeders degrade environment
People in the Hong ( Red ) River Delta are facing environmental problems as a result of improved economic growth including livestock breeding and increasing livestock population size.
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General/World
Bird song sheds light on learning
Young canaries happily learn songs that sound nothing like their species, but they revert to a strict canary-like melody as they mature, Science reports.
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General/World
Early Humans May Have Crossed Sea to Leave Africa
Where did we come from, and how did we get here? Most scientists agree on the most basic answers to these questions, suggesting modern humans first evolved in Africa, probably around 150,000 years ago, and later colonized the globe.
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General/World
Ocean waters yield cancer therapy
Scientists believe they can make cancer drugs from the humble sea squirt.
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13 May 2005:
China
Delta animal breeders degrade environment
People in the Hong ( Red ) River Delta are facing environmental problems as a result of improved economic growth including livestock breeding and increasing livestock population size.
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Malaysia
Illegal felling of merbau trees in Perak
GERIK: For 100 years, the merbau tree had thrived in the forest fringing Tasik Temenggor in Perak, growing to a height of 50m and a diameter equivalent to the length of a Perodua Kancil.
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Philippines
Manna from beneath the sea
Avisit to northern Mindanao on the fourth week of March 2005 was full of good news for marine resources protection and management. Several coastal municipalities bordering the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea in the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and Misamis Occidental have made progress toward protection of their coastal and marine resources. They have established more protected areas and increased their effort to curb destructive fishing. They are beginning to pay more attention to upland areas which because of deforestation are exporting to coastal areas loads of sediment. Sedimentation is one major enemy of productive ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs. The deforestation of Mt. Malindang, for example, has smothered valuable fishery areas along the coast of northern Mindanao. Bringing back the trees lining the river banks and planting trees in the hillsides would reduce the amount of sediment that renders coastal marine waters unproductive. It is time to extend the concept of CRM to include headwaters of rivers to address the problem of resource depletion.
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Philippines
DBP launches reforestation program
ABUCAY, Bataan.—The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) launched here recently the "DBP Forest," a reforestation program that seeks to support and encourage the forestation of open and denuded areas through the planting of relatively high value fruit trees and other useful plant species.
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Philippines
Forest corridors in Arakan valley backed
Nine barangay officials, three indigenous people’s organizations and the municipal chairperson of the Council of Elders of the Manobo tribe expressed their support for efforts to preserve the remaining forests in the Arakan Valley in Cotabato Province during a Multistakeholders’ Conference organized by the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) last April 1-2 at the Philippine Eagle Center in Malagos, Baguio district, Davao City.
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Viet Mam
Conservation fund to grant support to national parks
HA NOI — About 50 of Viet Nam’s national parks and nature reserves are to be provided with small grants and technical support for the protection of biodiversity in forests.
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General/World
Huge recycling sculpture unveiled
A giant sculpture has been created to show just how much electrical equipment people throw away during their lives.
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General/World
Drought threatens rare black cockatoo population
Another drought in south-eastern Australia could further threaten the endangered red-tailed black cockatoo.
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General/World
Eagles’ deaths spark mystery in Canada
CALGARY, Alberta. - Four bald eagles have been found dead and three more sick and motionless in a rash of barbiturate poisonings in Western Canada, and officials fear at least some of the cases may have been caused by waste from illegal drug labs.
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General/World
UN may add new chemicals to ‘dirty dozen’ ban
PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay.—Countries at a UN meeting in Uruguay agreed on Friday to consider adding four new chemicals to the "dirty dozen" list of banned pesticides and industrial chemicals, a UN official said.
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General/World
Government backs aquarium project
The government is backing plans for the world's largest freshwater aquarium to be built in Bedfordshire.
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General/World
Beijing Residents to Drink Water from Yangtze
An emergency project to divert water from nearby Hebei Province is expected to be completed next year and to start to pump water to this thirsty Chinese capital city in 2007, an official with the Beijing Water Authority said Wednesday.
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General/World
UN Sustainable Development Symposium Opens in Nanchang
The United Nations (UN) Symposium on the Integrated Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals opened on Tuesday in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province.
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General/World
Global Warming Spells out Water Shortage
A third of the world's population lives in countries that find it difficult or impossible to meet water needs, a proportion that could double by 2025, said RajendraK. Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Wednesday.
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11 May 2005:
China
Energy-efficient Lighting Products Could Save Power by 60 to 80%
China could save power by 60 to 80 percent by promoting energy-efficient lighting products, a senior official with the National Development and Reform Commission said in Shanghai Monday.
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China
Flood and Drought Warning for Summer
A rainstorm hit Guangzhou, provincial capital of Guangdong, yesterday morning, reducing visibility in urban areas to less than 100 meters and triggering avalanches of mud and rock, the day before a top meteorologist warned of a summer of severe drought and floods.
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China
Protected Birds' Death a Mystery
A cull of around 180 bar-headed geese a state second-class endangered animal has baffled wildlife experts.
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Philippines
Saving RP environment one classroom at a time
The Philippine environment has an exciting new ally! "The Tropical Rainforest and the People," an environmental education workbook series for grade school students has just been published. The publication marks the start of what the series’ authors call "Learning adventures in environmental education using the plight of the Philippine rainforest as a focus."
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Philippines
Plagues at sea
A friend just sent me a newspaper clipping describing a natural plague occurring on the coral reef of Limasawa Island, a historically important island at the mouth of Sogod Bay, province of Southern Leyte. The report described the presence of large numbers of the crown of thorns starfish on this coral reef. This starfish, locally called dap-ag by fishers, are voracious predators of living tissues of reef corals. The effect of this predation is death of hard corals, further resulting in a number of negative effects—reduced production of fish, invasion by blue and blue-green algae and some species of sea urchins, etc and physical changes such as increased beach erosion.
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Philippines
Garbage-carrying barges rile Bulacan residents
Environmental groups in Bulacan vowed to stop the further entry of barges carrying garbage from Pier 18 of the Manila North Harbour to Obando River going to the dumpsite of the Navotas Controlled Dump Facility in Tanza, Navotas.
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Viet Nam
Maritime sector needs more investment
HA NOI — The maritime sector needs VND60 trillion (US$3.8 billion) to carry out planned development of Viet Nam’s port systems through 2010, according to the Ministry of Transport.
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General/World
New Zealand to introduce carbon tax in 2007
WELLINGTON.—New Zealand is to proceed with a carbon tax from 2007 that will increase the price of vehicle fuels and energy, but which is also expected to dent gross domestic product.
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General/World
Animals at Hato Pinero wildlife sanctuary face uncertain future
After years of providing a refuge for jaguars, giant storks and anacondas, Venezuela’s best-known eco-tourism reserve is fighting for its own survival against a government land reform.
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General/World
Hawaii to harness sea water to cool buildings
The turquoise blue waters surrounding Hawaii’s emerald green isles have long been a source of food and recreation. Now the chilly waters deep below the ocean’s surface are being eyed as a source of cool relief from the tropical heat.
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General/World
Aust 'Jurassic' tree takes root in London
A "Jurassic" tree dating from the dinosaur age and long thought to have been extinct for 200 million years has been planted at a park in London by British wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough.
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General/World
Fish is shortest-lived vertebrate
The pygmy goby lives an average of 59 days, pipping the previous record holder, an African fish which lives for just over two-and-a-half months.
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General/World
Swiss put glacier under wraps to slow ice melt
Alarmed by the retreat of its Alpine glacier, a Swiss ski resort wrapped part of the shrinking ice-cap in a giant blanket in a bid to reduce the summer melt.
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06 May 2005:
China
First Wetland Park Welcomes Visitors
The Xixi Wetland Park -- touted as China's first such wetlands site for the public to enjoy -- has opened in Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province.
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Philippines
Deforestation is top concern in environmental R&D
Experts identified 15 proposed Philippine environmental research and development (R&D) priorities with deforestation as the first.
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04 May 2005:
Borneo
Borneo a 'hotbed' of new species
Over 360 new species have been discovered in Borneo over the last decade, highlighting the great need for conservation in the area, the WWF says.
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China
Students Dress in Trash to Mark Earth Day
Students at Shanghai Community International School wore hats made out of garbage and turned water bottles into drums yesterday to celebrate International Earth Day.
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China
Animal Disease Prevention Center to Be Set up
Beijing will establish an animal epidemic disease prevention and control center together with an animal disease information management and early-warning system, sources with the municipal agriculture bureau said on Sunday.
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China
Youths Called to Work for Sustainable Development
The "Environmental Educators' Initiative Project", kicked off its third phase in Beijing Thursday, calling on more Chinese youth to work for sustainable development both for their homeland and the world at large.
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China
Invasive Species Seized
Huangpu Customs in south China's Guangdong Province have seized 50,000 red-slider tortoises from a boat smuggling the reptiles from Hong Kong into the Chinese mainland, the General Administration of Customs said on Friday.
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China
Government Turns up NGO Volume
With unprecedented support from high-level government officials, entrepreneurs and experts, the All China Environment Federation was officially inaugurated last Friday, this year's Earth Day.
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Hong Kong
Private sector solution for Hong Kong waste
SYDNEY - Hong Kong plans to roll out an integrated waste management system with private sector participation to handle the growing problem of waste disposal. "We plan to invest in new technology," says Sarah Liao, Hong Kong's Secretary for Environment, Transport and Works.
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Japan
A dream comes true as one mighty ocean-dweller nests under myriad stars
It was as dark a night as I can ever remember, and one I will never forget.
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Malaysia
Titan to ride on strong demand
DONALD Condon, managing director of polymers producer Titan Chemicals Corp Bhd which is to be one of the largest listings on Bursa Malaysia soon, is passionate about plastics.
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Malaysia
Heed nature’s warning signs
KUALA LUMPUR: The best warning a person can have of an impending tsunami is not through high-tech alert systems but signs from nature, said an international tsunami expert.
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Malaysia
We need more nature conservation people
Malaysia may be rich in biological diversity but it lacks the knowledgeable and skilled people vital for protecting this natural wealth.
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Philippines
Two city parks make up a study in contrast
MEMBERS of the Winner Foundation, caretakers of the Arroceros Forest Park in the center of Manila, lament that now that the trees they planted nine years ago are beginning to grow, they may have to give way to a building on orders of City Hall.
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Philippines
Bioremediation: Aiding environment amid mining activities
The past decade or so witnessed the big slump in the Philippine mining industry. It used to be one of the more lucrative dollar-earning business sector prior to the dawning of environmental awareness among the people
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Philippines
Cabanatuan garbage facility bucked
CABANATUAN CITY.—Residents here have vowed to oppose the construction of a 7.8 hectare garbage dumpsite.
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Philippines
Task force to help clean up Metro cities and towns
Environment Secretary Michael Defensor has instructed Corazon C. Davis, regional executive director, to head the Ecological Solid Waste Management Task Force for Metro Manila.
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Philippines
Cyanide
Cyanide and hydrocyanic acid have been given wide publicity via the daily newspapers last month in connection with the poisoning cases in a small village on Bohol Island. One news item on the use of cyanide in reef fishing was attributed to Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri of Bukidnon, an inland province. The fact is that cyanide is so widely used by fishers that people have taken it for granted. We have to thank Mr. Zubiri for reminding us of the destructive effects of this chemical on our marine environment.
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Philippines
Artist offers work for typhoon victims
WHILE leafing through the Inquirer's pages recently, Baguio-based artist Benhur Villanueva noticed a photograph of donors to the Sagip Buhay project of the Catholic Media Network and the Inquirer for typhoon victims of Infanta, Quezon.
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Thailand
Phuket sees region’s first tsunami drill
BANGKOK: Thailand held the Indian Ocean region's first full tsunami evacuation drill at badly hit Phuket island yesterday, confident the system would comfort tourists and residents spooked by the disaster four months ago.
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East Asia
Bird flu mutates and now more infectious
Deadly bird flu is mutating to spread from person to person, bringing a disastrous global pandemic closer, experts fear.
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General/World
WHO to launch first Web-based system against fake drugs
The World Health Organization (WHO) will turn to the Internet to strengthen its global fight against counterfeit drugs, a business estimated to generate more than $35 billion in sales a year that has become a serious problem for developing countries.
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