"15 most toxic places to live"

Mother Nature Network reports on the 15 most toxic places to live:

Included in the list are:

Citarum River, Indonesia: the vast amounts of trash clogging up the waterway makes it look like a landfill rather than a river

Rondônia, Brazil (picture): slash and burning the Amazon rain forest to raise cattle has ruined the area

Lake Karachay, Russia: it was used by the former Soviet Union as the dumping spot for nuclear waste

See the slide show: The 15 most toxic places to live

Photo by National Geographic / Getty Images

Smallest primate under threat

Reuters reports on the threat to the world's smallest monkey, the tarsier. The habitat of this tiny primate, the size of a human fist, in Indonesia's Sulawesi forest is being destroyed by logging. There are an estimated 1,000 left in the world.

Watch the report below:

Alternative fuels on the road and in Indonesia

Reuters has two interesting video reports on biofuels this week.

The first is on the "Grease to Greece" race from the UK to Athens, where participants drive cars using converted engines that run on used cooking oil:



The second report is on an Indonesian tofu factory that creates biofuel out of the tofu waste water. Twenty households and two tofu factories use the biofuel created: