Wooden satellite: something you don't hear or read about every day, right? But there actually is one, and it's slated to go into orbit before the end of 2021.
FSC-certified Indonesian logger may have cleared orangutan habitat: Report
A secretive Indonesian company group, Alas Kusuma, has allegedly cleared orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, according to a new report by the NGO Aidenvironment.
The company is the second-largest deforester in Indonesia’s pulp and paper sector, according to the report, which links it to the clearing of 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of forest from 2016 to 2021.
Little is known about the company, but it has business links to Japanese companies and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
JAKARTA An Indonesian company with ties to Japanese conglomerates has cleared large swaths of rainforests, including habitat for critically endangered orangutans, according to a report.
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JIJI May 6, 2021
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally Thursday, attracting buybacks following their falls before the Golden Week holiday period in Japan.
The 225-issue Nikkei average surged 518.74 points, or 1.80%, to end at 29,331.37. On Friday, the key market gauge dropped 241.34 points.
The Topix index of all first section issues jumped 29.16 points, or 1.54%, to 1,927.40 after falling 10.82 points the previous trading day. The Tokyo market was closed from Monday through Wednesday for national holidays.
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Wooden satellites: Can space answer NZ s productivity question?
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OPINION: On April 14 this year, just two days after the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, more than 100 Kiwis attended the Auckland Aerospace event in Auckland.
Since those days of Gagarin and Nasa s original Mercury 7 astronauts, humans have extended their reach a fair way, including creating something of a traffic jam around Mars in 2021, with three missions from national space agencies in North America, Asia and the Middle East (Nasa, the China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency).