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Plainclothes NYPD officers reportedly feigned having to use the restroom in order to enter a church and conduct surveillance on Occupy Wall Street protestors who recently sought shelter there after being evicted from their original protest site at Zuccotti Park.

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Does BLM Mean What It Says? Link: Does BLM Mean What It Says?

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Government experts meeting under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have endorsed a wide-ranging programme to strengthen information available to decision-makers on the spread of invasive alien species (IAS). Read more here: Action plan for information on invasive alien species

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2011) - Amphibian populations are declining worldwide, and their declines far exceed those of other animal groups: more than 30% of all species are listed as threatened according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Link: Predicting Future Threats for Global Amphibian Biodiversity

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Reuters) - A worsening of the euro zone debt crisis could increase a climate funding gap to $45 billion by 2015 as governments struggle to maintain levels of climate change investment due to austerity measures, Ernst & Young said on Thursday. See the original post: Euro zone crisis to widen climate fund gap: report

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NEW YORK, Nov 16, 2011 (IPS) - Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates. See more here: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily

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In a memorable scene in Al Gore's film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, the former US vice-president lampoons a cartoon of a pair of scales that weighs the Earth against a stack of gold bars. Gore's point is that any attempt to compare the merits of the two is ludicrous given their relative importance in the grand...

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) - The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. Go here to read the rest: Erratic, Extreme Day-To-Day Weather Puts Climate Change in New...

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A European Union target to promote the use of biofuels will accelerate global species loss because it encourages the conversion of pasture, savanna and forests into new cropland, EU scientists have warned. Read more from the original source: EU Biofuel Target Seen as Driving Species Loss

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Traditional crops worldwide are in urgent need of protection from global warming, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). See original here: Traditional African Food Crops Need Protection from Climate Change