Archive for ‘indonesia’
Indonesian floods kill hundreds
January 9th, 2008
Rescuers use rubber boats to deliver food and medicine to the flood victims.Landslides and floods are a common occurrence during the rainy season in Indonesia, especially in heavily logged areas.
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120 feared dead in landslides
December 27th, 2007
Rescuers struggled on Thursday (December 27) to pull out bodies buried under thick mud, officials said. The government has moved thousands of villagers who lost their homes into temporary shelters in offices, schools and tents.
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More to find in Indonesia’s “Lost World”-scientist
December 18th, 2007
Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia’s Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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Giant rat, tiny opossum
December 18th, 2007
Boffins on an expedition to the Foja Mountains in the Papua province in Indonesia believe the huge Mallomys giant rat and Cercartetus pygmy opossum are entirely new to science.
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Indigenous people fear double climate hit
December 13th, 2007
Indigenous people already struggling to cope with a warming world risk losing their homes under rich-world schemes to tackle climate change by using forests as carbon sinks, activists said on Thursday.
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Indonesia announces national conservation programme for orangutans
December 10th, 2007
Indonesia is preparing a conservation programme to protect orangutans and their habitats in Borneo and Sumatra, Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Monday at the World Climate Conference on Bali.
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Indonesia’s ‘Green Grandma’
November 30th, 2007
A woman living in one of the Indonesian capital’s poorest neighbourhoods incites her neighbours to recycle their garbage, save energy and grow plants to fight pollution. The area has turned into Jakarta’s cleanest neighbourhood, and is even becoming a tourist attraction.
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Indonesia’s corals threatened by climate change
November 28th, 2007
It is a country with some of the world’s richest coral reefs. But scientists fear many of Indonesia’s pyschedelic reefs, already significantly damaged by blast fishing and pollution, now face an even graver threat: global warming.
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Indonesia pins hopes on forests at Bali meeting
November 21st, 2007
For years, Indonesia has made money by chopping down its forests. Now it wants to earn billions by preserving what is left. The huge archipelago, with about 10 percent of the world’s tropical rainforests, is pinning its hopes on next month’s U.N. climate talks in Bali.
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Indonesian volcano roaring to life
November 9th, 2007
Sending a boom across the bay, the offspring of the fabled Krakatau volcano unleashes another mighty eruption, blasting smoke and red-hot rocks hundreds of feet into the sky.
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Indonesia’s volcanoes keep rumbling
November 8th, 2007
But experts said Arak Krakatau, which lies in the Sunda strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra some 130 kilometres west of the capital Jakarta, might not erupt immediately. Meanwhile, authorities lowered the alert level for Mount Kelud on the densely populated island of Java after a decline…
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Indonesia on volcano alert
November 6th, 2007
Mount Kelud in East Java has been spewing steam and ash from its crater for weeks while the alert on Mount Anak Krakatau, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, has been raised to the second highest level.
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Indonesia demands cash to save forests.
October 29th, 2007
The Indonesian government is recruiting other developing nations in an attempt to pressure richer governments to provide incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Indonesia hosts talks ahead of Bali climate meeting
October 24th, 2007
Richer nations must take the lead in reducing carbon emissions, but developing nations should also play their part depending on their circumstances, Indonesia’s president said on Wednesday. Indonesia is hosting a meeting of environment ministers and officials from about 40 nations this week ahead of a key meeting in Bali in December aimed at hammering out a new global climate …
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Indonesia third ranked CO2 emitter
July 12th, 2007
Palm oil producers are blamed for some of the many forest fires to hit Indonesia. Environmental campaign group Greenpeace says the fires deliberately started to clear large areas of land for crop production are creating huge amounts of carbon dioxide and spreading haze across south east Asia.
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