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...turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females - and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went...
According to the paper, "Payment for Sex in a Macaque Mating Market," published in the December issue of Animal Behavior, males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual. It worked. After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times. The study also showed that the number...
...that's beginning to change, thanks to the clean development mechanism (CDM), a Kyoto Protocol policy that has rich countries funding greenhouse gas reductions in poor nations like Indonesia. With technical support from the U.S. giant General Electric - along with companies in Japan, Austria and the U.K. - Suwung is installing equipment that will capture the landfill gases and convert them to electricity...
...market, and the entire process will keep Suwung's size sustainable, controlling Bali's growing litter problem. "In Bali, they are aware that if they don't take care of their waste, the tourists will go away," says Bernt Harald Bakken, a Norwegian manager at PT Navigat Organic Energy Indonesia, the local company that is running the project. "So there's a strong commitment to keep Bali clean...
...year an area of ice almost twice the size of Britain melted in a single week. In an era of unprecedented global economic growth, the number of hungry people increased from 800 million to 830 million between 1996 and 2003. At current rates of logging, the natural forests of Indonesia and Burma will be gone within a decade or so. Each year the number of failing states increases - Sudan and Somalia today, perhaps Pakistan tomorrow - a trend that climate change will only worsen. Global demands on the Earth already exceed sustainable capacity...