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A DHS privacy impact assessment concludes that suspicious activity reports compiled by the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center, called “Patriot Reports,” risk unnecessarily collecting and retaining personally identifiable information such as an individual’s name, address, phone numbers, social security number, race, ethnicity, height and weight, eye color, hair color,other identifying information and features.

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By ERICA GOODE, The New York Times - Published: August 15, 2011 The arrests were routine. Two women were taken into custody after they were discovered peering into cars in a downtown parking garage in Santa Cruz, Calif. One woman was found to have outstanding warrants; the other was carrying illegal drugs. But the presence of the police officers...

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Iowa: Administrative Rules Committee Strips Dove Rule of Traditional Ammunition Ban See more here: Iowa: Administrative Rules Committee Strips Dove Rule of Traditional Ammunition Ban

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Scientific breakthrough could help restore the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, otherwise known as burning bush, to prominence in commercial marketplace The rest is here: UConn scientist develops sterile variety of invasive plant

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An epic candid camera experiment which spanned three continents and seven countries has captured the unthreatened, enquiring expressions of some of the world's rarest animals in a collection of 52,000 photographs. See the original post: The secret life of mammals captured on film

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PARIS - Scientists say they have engineered bacteria that can mop up mercury, a step forward in the goal of using "bioremediation" to cleanse toxic chemicals from the environment. See the original post here: Mercury-loving bugs speed help for toxic spills

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16 August 2011 - Faced with increased poaching and illegal trade in ivory and horns of elephants and rhinoceroses, 300 government and civil society experts worldwide are seeking to strengthen conservation with new financial mechanisms at a United Nations-backed meeting in Geneva this week. See original here: UN-backed meeting seeks to clamp down on poaching of elephants, rhinos

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Entanglement in fishing nets and high calf mortality thought to be behind decline in the small numbers of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong Excerpt from: Mekong River dolphin population on the brink of extinction - WWF

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KATHMANDU, Aug 17, 2011 (IPS) - Saraswoti Bhetwal's terraced fields stand out in the sub-Himalayan Lamdihi village as a mosaic of shapes and colours formed by beans, bitter gourd, chilly, tomato, lady's fingers and other crops. Continue reading here: Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple

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Global warming could deliver a jolt to coffee lovers - and not the kind they've come to crave first thing in the morning. Read more from the original source: Global warming could deliver a jolt to coffee lovers