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Attention IT employees, your days of getting overtime pay may be over if Congress passes a new recently-introduced bill. The bill expands the definition of the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) exemptions for workers who are entitled to overtime pay. The law currently only exempts certain IT workers, including computer programmers or software engineers. The new bill would...

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The U.S. Department of Justice says Napa State Hospital and Norwalk’s Metropolitan State Hospital have failed to comply with critical provisions of a sweeping consent judgment imposed in 2006. By Lee Romney and John Hoeffel, Los ... See the rest here: Extended U.S. oversight sought for 2 California mental hospitals

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Conservation organizations and the Ecuadorian government have succeeded in securing over 250,000 acres (106,000 hectares) of cloud forest and grasslands surrounding the Antisana Volcano for protection. View post: Volcano and cloud forests conserved in Ecuador

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone's president is officially declaring the Gola Rainforest a national park. View post: Sierra Leone's president officially declares the Gola Rainforest a national park

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In the first X-Men film, the comic book character Wolverine is asked if it hurts when his claws retract from his knuckles. His unflinching response: "Every time." The real wolverine (Gulo gulo) is just as tenacious with new research proving it is a "winter endurance athlete." Visit link: Wolverines live up to tough reputation

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DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) - Talata Nsor, a 54-year-old woman from Bolgatanga community in Northern Ghana, has been weaving the cultural Bolga baskets, which are named after her community, her entire life. Link: Climate Change Killing Womens' Livelihoods

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Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today. Most of the observed warming - at least 74 % - is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature...

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DURBAN: Several animal species including gorillas in Rwanda and tigers in Bangladesh could risk extinction if the impact of climate change and extreme weather on their habitats is not addressed, a UN report showed on Sunday. The rest is here: Gorillas, tigers at risk due to climate change:Report

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The rich countries caused the problem, but it is the world's poor who suffer. The Durban climate talks must right this wrong Read the rest here: Climate change is a matter of justice

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WASHINGTON, Dec 3, 2011 (IPS) - The United States' delegation at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCC) in Durban, South Africa has come under heavy fire from civil society leaders and activists around the globe for standing in the way of real solutions to climate...