Indonesian woman contracts bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia is critically ill with bird flu, health officials said Monday, becoming the 85th human case in the country worst hit by the deadly virus. [News Source]

US gives Myanmar 600,000 dollars to fight bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News) The United States has given 600,000 dollars to the UN's agricultural agency to fight bird flu in military-ruled Myanmar, after the deadly H5N1 virus was detected in Yangon, officials said Monday. [News Source]

Bird flu prompts culling drive in South Korea. South Korea said on Sunday that it culled more than 35 000 ducks at poultry farms in the centre of the country in order to curb a new bird flu outbreak confirmed last week. [News Source]

Indonesia’s death toll hits 65. A 20-year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu on Monday, a health official said, raising the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 65. [News Source]

Parties battle over green agenda. Chancellor Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron are battling for leadership of the green agenda. [News Source]

Maple producers hope weather will cooperate in ‘07. The state industry's future could face more difficult challenges from global warming and urban sprawl. [News Source]

China admits setback. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao admitted last week that his country failed in 2006 to meet the environmental emissions and energy efficiency targets that it had set in 2005. But he vowed that China will stick to its medium-term targets for 2010. [News Source]

Toyama Chemical begins U.S. trials of bird flu drug (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Japan's Toyama Chemical Co. Ltd. said on Monday it had begun U.S. trials for a drug to combat bird flu -- one that has a different mechanism from the current class of drugs used to fight the disease. [News Source]