British Singer Morrissey Urges Closure of Indonesian Zoo

How many more international personalities do we need to visit the Surabaya zoo before some real positive actions are taken? British singer Morrissey called on the Indonesian government on Tuesday to immediately shut down a notorious zoo in eastern Java where hundreds of animals have died or disappeared. The former frontman of seminal indie band [...]

Study: Plastic in ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ increases 100-fold

We have posted stories and links on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch before on Green Kampong and although we might have moved on with our lives these massive plastic soup patches have only become far worse. By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com The amount of plastic trash in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” has increased 100-fold during the [...]

Dead Dolphins and Birds Are Causing Alarm in Peru

Late last year, fishermen began finding dead dolphins, hundreds of them, washed up on Peru’s northern coast. Now, seabirds have begun dying, too, and the government has yet to conclusively pinpoint a cause. Officials insist that the two die-offs are unrelated. The dolphins are succumbing to a virus, they suggest, and the seabirds are dying [...]

Australia experts look to climate ‘time machine’

An ecological time machine has been set up that Australian scientists hope will provide an unprecedented glimpse into the impact of climate change. Half a dozen giant steel frames nine storeys high tower over native bushland as part of one of the world’s most complex experiments looking at the influence of rising levels of carbon [...]

Microsoft promises to go carbon neutral from July

Microsoft has pledged to help protect the environment by reducing its carbon footprint. From July 1st 2012 its data centres, software development labs and office buildings would all be carbon neutral, the firm announced. Environmental groups have called on the technology industry to adopt more renewable energy sources. Rivals Facebook and Google have pledged to [...]

What Is Sustainable Development and What Is Rio+20?

We don’t get much coverage of global environmental issues here. But we do get a lot of talk about how the MRT has been breaking down so often lately, and how the massive population influx has probably played some role in breaking the back of our small country’s transport infrastructure. And then just think of [...]

160 Video Cameras to Help Monitor Last 35 Javan Rhinos

  Asian Pulp and Paper spend 300k on rhinos. What are your thoughts on this? Smile, you’re on endangered-species camera. The world’s last 35 Javan rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros sondaicus) are a little bit safer this week as 120 new camera traps have been installed inUjung Kulon National Park, located on the western corner of the island [...]