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Public Defender Coker Endorses D.A. Dumanis’s Mayoral Run By Gail Powell – San Diego Reader – Published Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 Defendants who have utilized the public defenders’ office to deal with legal problems in San Diego are up in arms over public defender Henry Coker endorsing D.A. Bonnie Dumanis in the upcoming mayoral race. Dumanis recently published...

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The police say that boarded-up homes in parts of Queens are being taken over by addicts, dealers, prostitutes, gang members and thieves. Continue reading here: Foreclosures Empty Homes, and Criminals Fill Them Up

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Colombia's presidential advisor for biodiversity has condemned the killing of around 2,000 sharks in Colombian waters by Costa Rican fishermen. View post: Colombia condemns killing of sharks in Colombian Pacific for fins

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Curbing climate change by paying to protect the world's forests has proved much more challenging than first expected - mainly because of rising demand for forest land to grow food, widespread economic recession and failing efforts to create a global carbon market. See more here: Forest protection efforts faltering - experts

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Newswise - ANN ARBOR, Mich.---North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated. Go here to see the original: Future Forests May Soak Up More Carbon Dioxide than Previously Believed

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The moratorium on clearing Amazon rainforest for soy farms in Brazil appears to be maintaining its effectiveness for a fifth straight year, reports the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE). Go here to see the original: Soy moratorium in Amazon maintaining its effectiveness

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CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) - Degradation of land is the world's quiet crisis, undercutting food production, increasing water scarcity, impoverishing hundreds of millions of people and affecting two billion overall. Nearly 20 million square kilometres of the earth's arable lands - an area twice the size of Canada - have already been degraded. Read the...

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Nairobi - For Haleka Shishay, being unemployed left him feeling desperate. A resident of the Tahtai Maichew district in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Shishay used to travel during the rainy season to find seasonal work. That was before bees came into his life. Today, Shishay, 25, is the proud owner of bee hives that now give him a regular...

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LONDON -- Climate change has all but fallen off the political agenda across Europe as the resurging economic crisis empties national coffers and shakes economic confidence, and the public and the press turn their attention to more immediate issues of rising fuels bills and joblessness, analysts say. Read the original post: Climate Change Tumbles Down Europe's Political Agenda...

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PARIS - The UN's talks on climate change are daft and crippled by finger-pointing and the need for consensus, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was quoted on Thursday by Le Monde as saying. See the original post here: UN climate talks 'stupid and endless' - Maldives