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Indonesia Forest Moratorium Breached on First Day

By Michael Taylor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environmental group said. [More]

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Rising Forest Density Offsets Climate Change – Study

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday. [More]

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How To Prevent Rainforest Destruction

New positive numbers about the world's rainforests provide lessons on how to prevent deforestation: protect, plant, and pay. Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: 25%--amount of decrease in rainforest deforestation The climate is becoming increasingly unpredictable and global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, but take heart: the destruction of the world's largest rainforests (the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo Mekong) is actually down 25%, according to a new report from ForestCarbon Asia .

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Australia,Fiji,Indonesia,Malaysia,Maldives,Myanmar (Burma),New Caledonia,Seychelles,Tahiti,Thailand|: Selected Asia destinations – 5% Boatbookings…

Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Seychelles, Maldives, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Tahiti and Fiji, Boatbookings will offer a further 5% discount on the charter fee, on top of any owners/operators discounts, for charters of 8 days or longer

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With Every Fluey Tweet, Sickness Gets More Social

Sickweather is the latest effort to mine data in order to reveal how common colds--and worse--are going around your neighborhood. Like it or not, sickness often infects you and your friends

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CEO Passions: Gymnastics

Twice a day, skin care entrepreneur Ole Henriksen heads to his backyard to swing, roll, and twist on gymnastic equipment. Ole Henriksen started doing gymnastics as a young boy in Nibe, Denmark.

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State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

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Westwood wins Indonesian Masters, could be No. 1

Lee Westwood won the Indonesian Masters on Sunday to put himself in position to move back to No. 1 in the world if Luke Donald fails to win the PGA Tour event in South Carolina.

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Are Larger Earthquakes a Sign of the Times?

By Sid Perkins for Nature magazine Beginning in late 2004, a flurry of massive, tsunami-spawning earthquakes have rocked the world, first slamming Indonesia, then Chile and most recently Japan. [More]

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Ursula Sladek: Taking Back The Grid [Video]

A German activist who helped found Germany's first community-owned utility thinks citizens shouldn't leave big decisions to power companies and elected officials.

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