Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

athena submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.biologynews.net)

"The recent survey by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society - Indonesia Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARCCoERS) investigated the condition of coral reefs in Pulau Simeulue and Pulau Banyak off Aceh, Indonesia, in March 2007.

The surveys covered 35 sites along 600 kms (372 miles) of coastline, have documented, for the first time, the effects of earthquake uplift on coral reefs. The entire island of Simeulue, with a perimeter of approximately 300 km (186 miles), was raised up to 1.2 m (3

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Indonesia eyes bird flu vaccine cooperation with Egypt

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"Indonesia is looking to work with Egypt to produce a human bird flu vaccine, its trade minister said on Tuesday."

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Volcano gets choke chains to slow mud

DNA2004 submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.nature.com)

Indonesian geophysicists hope to stem the flow of a destructive mud volcano on East Java by dropping chains of concrete balls into its mouth.

The mud eruption began on 29 May last year in the middle of a rice paddy in the village of Porong, 30 kilometres south of Surabaya, the provincial capital. Since then, the volcano has spewed out up to 126,000 cubic metres of mud a day, flooding an area of more than 4 square kilometres.

Some 10,000 people have been left homeless and 20 factories have closed

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Indonesia to tackle tuberculosis and dengue

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Indonesia is set to attack both dengue fever and tuberculosis, in a move that should both boost the country's profile in clinical research and tackle two devastating diseases.

A collaboration between the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases (NITD) and two Indonesian research centres was announced on 25 January at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi. "This will be the first true clinical research centre in Indonesia

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