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Compared to some of South America's megafauna stand-out species-the jaguar, the anaconda, and the harpy eagle come to mind-the tapir doesn't get a lot of love. Read more here: Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America's biggest animal

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The area covered by Arctic sea ice reached its lowest point this week since the start of satellite observations in 1972, say German researchers. See original here: Arctic ice cover hits historic low

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Coral reefs are on course to become the first ecosystem that human activity will eliminate entirely from the Earth, a leading United Nations scientist claims. View post: Coral reefs 'will be gone by end of the century'

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Microscopic algae and the nearly invisible animals that eat them do more than just drift along the ocean surface. See the original post here: Secret Lives of Plankton Revealed in Microscopic Glory

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Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges provides a much needed survey reflecting upon recent institutional experience yielding analysis that concludes that there exists financially rigorous rationale to justify conservation of biodiversity for economic reasons, above and beyond the usual rationale of conservation only for biodiversity, spiritual or ethical reasons. Read more: Conserving...

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TORONTO - Elected president of the Maldives after spending 20 years leading a pro-democracy movement against a cruel dictatorship, Mohammed Nasheed believes it will have all been for naught if his nation of 1,200 islands is swallowed up by the ocean. See original here: Documentary a fight against climate change

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MONTREAL, Canada, Sep 11, 2011 (IPS) - Civil society leaders meeting here for the 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly are looking ahead toward next year's Rio+20 summit - a milestone anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and a crucial meeting of U.N. member states and non-governmental organisations to work towards a greener future. Read the rest here: Citizen...

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To become 'becalmed' when sailing could be considered a curse, or is at very least an inconvenience. After eight days and 1500 kilometres of rough seas north of Hawaii to be becalmed was all I could dream for. See the original post here: The Great Garbage Patch exposed

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Has the tide turned in Ohio? At one point, several months ago, Ohio had executed more prisoners in 2011 than any other state. In 2010, Ohio was behind only Texas in the number of executions carried out. Texas has been the most prolific purvey of state-sponsored death since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Ohio was literally...

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By ADAM LIPTAK – The New York Times – WASHINGTON — The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges around the country have been citing George Orwell’s “1984” to sound an alarm. They say the Fourth Amendment’s promise...