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Extreme weather has destroyed the dugong's feeding grounds - just the latest menace facing this already endangered species More here: Famine threatens Australia's gentle sea cows

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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 26, 2011 (IPS) - As the United Nations readies for a major international conference on sustainable development next June in Brazil, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are preparing to play a key role in the run-up to the summit meeting and are preparing a plan of action to be adopted by world leaders. Continued here: NGOs Must...

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Concern over climate change has taken a back seat to economic concerns in developed nations, a recent poll indicates. Read the original post: Global Warming not Considered a Major Threat by Many in Developed Nations

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Gambian National Environment Agency, NEA said recently that the country is already facing the worst ramifications of the climate change. Here is the original post: Gambia already suffers the negative impact of climate change

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An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage variety of a plant called Brassica rapa, a close relative of oilseed rape. Go here to read the rest: New genome sequence could improve important agricultural crops

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Last week the chief executive officer of the National Biodiversity Authority, Dr Roy Mugira, lost his job because, according to the authority, he had advised the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service to allow the World Food Programme to bring into the country untested corn-soy relief food from the US. View original post here: Kenya: Genetic Engineering - the...

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Windhoek - Namibian traditional authorities say the Draft Access and Benefit Sharing Bill is long overdue, as traditional communities have been exploited long enough. Original post: Namibia: Traditional Authorities Welcome Benefit Sharing Bill

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The European Union has pressed Turkey to ease or eliminate laws and policies that discriminate against non-Muslim religious groups, including restrictions on land ownership. Read more here: Turkey to Return Seized Property to Religious Minorities

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The New York Times, by SCOTT TUROW (Scott Turow is a lawyer and the author, most recently, of the novel “Innocent.”) Published: August 27, 2011 In one of those ironies that novelists relish, the on-again-off-again rape prosecution of the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems to have gravely damaged the political careers of both the prosecutor...

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Los Angeles County – Community Corrections Partnership AB 109/117 Implementation Plan Executive Summary In April 2011, the California Legislature passed the Public Safety Realignment Act (Assembly Bills 109 and 117), which transfers responsibility for supervising specific low-level inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to counties. In addition, it tasked the local Community...