Indonesia to spend $10M on cloud-seeding scheme to slow haze 28/6/2013

The Indonesian government will spend 100 billion rupiah — $10 million — on a cloud-seeding scheme to reduce the haze plaguing Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia. ...more

Byblos, the ‘Best Arab Tourist City’ in Lebanon offers lessons in greening too 27/6/2013

Byblos, also known as Jbeil, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city in Lebanon has been named the Arab world’s best tourist city by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, and it offers a host of lessons in greening too. ...more

Already polluted? Environmental toxins found in newborns' cord blood: report 27/6/2013

Canadian children may already be carrying environmental toxins in their bodies even before they are born, an environmental group says. ...more

New species of bird is found in an unlikely location in Cambodia 27/6/2013

Scientists working in Cambodia have reported a new species of bird in a decidedly less remote environment: the outskirts of Phnom Penh. ...more

Spanish town goes green by turning sewage into clean energy 27/6/2013

A Spanish resort town with sprawling golf courses and tree-lined beaches has added another green site to its attractions: the world's first plant to convert sewage into clean energy. ...more

Tiger wanders into zoo, tries captive life, breaks out a month later 27/6/2013

Late last April, keepers at India's Nandankanan Zoo were astonished to find that a wild Bengal tiger had wandered out of the forest and let himself onto the grounds of their facility. ...more

Bahrain initiates energy saving projects 26/6/2013

Bahrain is taking serious steps to improve energy efficiency and increase renewable energy use in the kingdom, participants at a recent forum said. ...more

Alaska volcano erupts with new intensity, disrupts local flights 26/6/2013

An Alaska volcano spewing ash and lava for the past six weeks erupted with new intensity early on Tuesday, belching a plume of cinders 5 miles into sky and onto a nearby town and disrupting local flights, officials said. ...more

How many near-earth asteroids are there? 26/6/2013

When we hear about another asteroid that will pass by close to Earth, we wonder how many such objects there are, how many have not been identified, and how NASA finds them and calculates their orbits around the sun. ...more

Green in a box 26/6/2013

Baking soda, cinnamon, lemon and grime – it may not seem the most appealing of combinations, but if you have all four you’ll be able to get some natural cleaning done in your house. ...more