Papua New Guinea

Scott Benson: Leatherback Turtles Along the Cali Coast

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


Scott Benson: Leatherback Turtles Along the Cali Coast Marine ecologist Scott Benson discusses the leatherback turtle population along the California...

Papua New Guinea Tribesmen Step Up Lawsuit Against New Yorker

Forbes.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media


"Vengeance Is Ours," by Pulitzer Prize-winning academic Jared Diamond, appeared in the April 21, 2008, issue of The New Yorker. Wemp and co-plaintiff ...

New Species Emerge and Others Disappear in Papua New Guina, Myanmar and British Columbia

GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home


Exciting new and evolved species have recently been discovered in Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, while other species have drastically diminished in Bri...

Papua New Guinea Plane Carrying 13 Missing

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


SYDNEY — Rescuers in a helicopter saw no immediate signs of life Wednesday at the wreckage of a chartered plane that crashed while carrying 13 p...

Climate Change Endangers Coral Triangle: WWF

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home


The area is shared between Indonesia and five other south-east Asian nations and is thought to contain 75% of the world's coral species. The Coral Tri...

Killing Of Innocent Women Linked To 'Sorcery' Is Overwhelming Police In Papua New Guinea

The Independent | Posted 06.07.2009 | World


Nearly all the residents of Koge watched as Julianna Gene and Kopaku Konia were dragged from their homes, to be hung from trees and tortured for sever...

Indigenous Peoples Discuss Climate Change

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home


Indigenous peoples, who have been hard hit by the ravages of global warming, were gathering in Alaska Monday for talks on the impact of climate change...

Including Forest Protection in Carbon Markets Will Harm Emission Reduction Efforts, Greenpeace Report Warns

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home


Deforestation, one of the main drivers of global warming, has barged its way to the heart of UN climate talks, which resumed in Bonn this week. Reduci...

New Species Of Green Tree Frog Discovered In Papua New Guinea

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green


SYDNEY — A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scienti...

Admiring Continents

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style


Pablo Ganguli

I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.

Where Violence Against Women Is Rampant

Zama Coursen-Neff | Posted 02.27.2009 | World


Zama Coursen-Neff

In Papua New Guinea, research indicates, two-thirds of women experience domestic violence, and 50 percent of women have experienced forced sex.

Papua New Guinea Woman Set On Fire, Witchcraft Fears Suspected

AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | World


SYDNEY, Australia — Police in rural Papua New Guinea said Friday they were investigating the killing of a woman who was tied to a wooden pole, s...

Illegal Shark Fishing Seeping Into Great Barrier Reef

Brisbane Times | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green


MARINE conservationists say the interception of a Papua New Guinea fishing boat laden with four tonnes of "de-finned" sharks in Australian waters sho...

Forest Disappearing In Papau New Guinea

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green


A new satellite analysis of logging in Papua New Guinea shows that the country has been losing about 1,400 square miles of rain forest, or about 1.4 p...