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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 11, 2011 (IPS) - The Bolsa Verde or Green Grant programme, which gives financial assistance to poor families that help preserve Brazil's Amazon jungle, may turn out to be only a drop in the ocean if legislation that undermines forest protection is adopted. View post: 'Green Grant' May Do Little to Protect Amazon

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Canadian companies, once leery of the costs and headaches of dealing with climate change, now realize that it may provide a significant business opportunity. See the rest here: Canadian firms warming to climate-change measures

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Paired with rice or steeped in feijoada stew, beans are an essential feature of Brazilian cuisine. View original post here: Brazil cooks up transgenic bean

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ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2011) - One of the most successful strategies in pest control is to endow crop plants with genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short, which code for proteins that kill pests attempting to eat them. Read more here: Smarter Toxins Help Crops Fight Resistant Pests

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The Supreme Court received much praise from the business community this year when it upheld the enforceability of consumer class action waivers . Some even believe that the ruling upholds mandatory arbitration agreements in employment contracts. Unfortunately, this may not be true. According to a recent California appellate court ruling, the Supreme Court destroyed consumer class actions. However,...

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The Sacramento Bee – October 10, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown handed labor a legislative loss on Sunday by rejecting a union-backed bill that would have forced the government to post outsource contracts of $5,000 or more on the Reporting Transparency in Government website and then on the Financial Information System for California website, which is still under construction....

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Undercover officers in the NYPD Special Services Unit reportedly infiltrated Muslim student groups at several New York colleges. The investigation was part of a larger racial mapping program that targets Muslim and Arab communities from scrutiny without individualized suspicion.

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October 10, 2011 – Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have made it illegal for police to search a suspect’s portable electronic devices during an arrest unless they had a court-issued warrant for the search. Since he didn’t sign that bill into law, California police remain clear to search…[For full story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/warrant-cellphone-tablet.html ]...

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In late June 2009, a small group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park began to fall ill. Read more from the original source: Rwanda: As Ecotourism Becomes More Popular, Wild Apes Are Succumbing to Human Diseases

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10 October 2011 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the capacity to become the driving force of Africa's economic development if its vast forests, water resources and trillions of dollars worth of mineral reserves are used prudently, according to the findings of a United Nations assessment released today. More here: DR Congo: UN advises prudent...