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NEW YORK- One in four mammals, one in eight birds and more than one in three amphibians are now at risk of extinction, according to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.In a live interactive web TV program from New York on Tuesday, the extraordinary loss of this diverse...

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(Reuters) - The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday. See the original post here: "Missing" Global Heat May Hide in Deep Oceans

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Global warming has increased the spread of pests in key farming regions with coffee exports facing the strain from the berry disease. Scientists at the Nairobi based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) predict increased incidences of coffee berry borer in coffee zones over the next 40 years due to changing climatic patterns. Go here to...

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More than 30 million people were displaced last year by environmental and weather-related disasters across Asia, experts have warned, and the problem is only likely to grow worse as climate change exacerbates such problems. Excerpt from: More than 30 million climate migrants in Asia in 2010, report finds

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A promotion for the world's best-selling beer encroaches on the protected breeding ground of the Tibetan antelope, according to Chinese conservationists who are campaigning against the commercial exploitation of one of the planet's most unique nature reserves. Continued here: Beer company threatens Tibetan antelope

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NAIROBI-Kenya's agriculture secretary is urging researchers to join the debate on genetically modified (GM) foods - and not leave the issues to politicians. Read the original here: Kenya's scientists urged to engage in GM debate

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By Don Heller, Los Angeles Daily News Columnist - Posted: 09/18/2011 01:00:00 AM PDT I have been a Republican for many years. I wrote the ballot initiative that reinstated the death penalty in California in 1978. I believe those who commit willful and intentional murder should be locked up and severely punished in the interest of public safety. I...

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By Allen Hopper – Special to The Bee - PUBLISHED SUNDAY, SEP. 18, 2011 California’s realignment process – which will shift responsibility for some low-level, nonviolent, nonserious offenders from state prisons to counties – has begun. But far more is at stake than the transfer of inmates. If properly implemented, realignment will reverse decades of over-reliance upon incarceration, improve...

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By David Riley – Special to the Taunton Gazette – Posted Sep 17, 2011 @ 10:30 PM Leaders of the state’s public defender system will soon detail a plan to hire more staff attorneys to represent the poor and contract less of that work to…[For full story:  http://www.tauntongazette.com/topstories/x827639843/NEW-COUNSEL-Attorneys-brace-for-changes-in-states-public-defender-system  ] See the original post here: Massachusetts – Attorneys brace...

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Jesse Strauss – Aljazeera – 18 Sep 2011 14:02 Troy Davis is waiting in his jail cell, hoping his advocates outside can convince the US State of Georgia not to execute him according to its schedule on Wednesday, September 21. Davis, now 42, was convicted in 1991 of the 1989 killing of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer...