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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]
Read More »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]
Read More »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 .
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »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 .
Read More »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.
Read More »PGT: Westwood takes 5-stroke Indonesia lead
PGT: Westwood takes 5-stroke Indonesia lead
Read More »PGT: Westwood has share of lead in Indonesia
PGT: Westwood has share of lead in Indonesia
Read More »Westwood trails by 2 after Indonesian 1st round
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -Lee Westwood trailed Indonesian Masters leader Siddikur of Bangladesh by two strokes after the first round on Thursday.
Read More »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]
Read More »The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid
How do developing countries provide a new market for companies? Is it really possible to do very well by doing good?
Read More »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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