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• Sulphuric acid threat to Ok Tedi floodplain

  8 September, 2008 in Minerals, Papua New Guinea

  Last week’s 11th International River Symposium heard how sulphur-laden tailings that have fanned out across the Ok Tedi floodplain pose a threat to animals and plants well into the future.

  Rhithroecology Ltd consultant Ian Campbell,…

• Poached fish in the Philippines

  3 September, 2008 in Fish, Philippines, Reefs

  Last week thirteen Vietnamese fishers were caught fishing just off the Philippines westernmost province, Palawan, which borders the South China Sea. Among various other sorts of fish, they had in their possession more than 100 turtles.…

• Climate change internships with IDRC

  1 September, 2008 in 4. Other News, Climate, Forests

  Two internship opportunities have been advertised with the IDRC in climate change related areas. The first deals with local benefits from payments for environmental services (PES) and the second with climate change adaptation - see…

• Climate Change and Food Production - Seminar

  29 August, 2008 in 4. Other News

  There is a seminar coming up organised the Nutrition Society of Australia during the National Nutrition Week 2008 in October. Will Steffen and others are talking. Looks like an interesting event.

  Here are the…

• Pawns or farmers?

  27 August, 2008 in Crops, Indonesia, Land, Water

  Maybe a simple question with which I am currently dealing but for which I find contradictory answers in the literature…

  To set the scene: 19 century Bali, the highly sophisticated irrigated rice terraces have long been…