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Indonesia world's No.3 greenhouse gas emitter - report
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is among the world's top three greenhouse gas emitters because of deforestation, peatland degradation and forest fires, a World Bank and British government climate change report released on Monday showed.
NEWSMAKER - Unheralded Yar'Adua to lead Nigeria
ABUJA (Reuters) - Six months ago, few Nigerians knew the name of Umaru Yar'Adua and even fewer could have predicted he would be their next president.
Food-fuel feud
With vegetable oils finding a new use as car fuel, we may end up facing a food shortage or paying more for food. Soaring demand for corn, sugar cane, rapeseed and palm oil to make biofuels has driven up prices of these crops, and that of food made from them.
Logical alternative
The solution to the food or fuel debate is simple - make fuel from non-food crops.
NZ wants beef import ban lifted
New Zealand has asked Malaysia to lift the two-year import ban on its beef, which was imposed when the meat was deemed not I>halal/I>.
Shrinking choices
Farmers have, over thousands of years, cultivated some 140,000 rice varieties but today, only a handful of hybrid breeds are planted.
Kiwis ask Malaysia to lift ban on beef imports from New Zealand
New Zealand has asked Malaysia to lift the two-year import ban on its beef, which was imposed when the meat was deemed not halal.
Move to cut acid-rain toxins by 66%
ACID rain-causing pollution from power stations could be cut by nearly two-thirds over the next five years, as the government promises intensified efforts to meet environmental goals that have so far been missed.
Hearts touched
It was a song about the tears of trees but it brought tears to the eyes of the listeners instead.
So much from so little land FAO lauds food programme
It is a remarkable achievement that China, with only 7% of the world's arable land, is able to feed its 1.3 billion people - a quarter of the global population.
