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Making smart moves to downsize the prison population could cut costs and help prevent budget reductions in other areas. The Los Angeles Times – By Barry Krisberg June 4, 2012 So far, the only apparent solutions to ... Go here to read the rest: OP-ED – Finding money in California’s prisons

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Residents of the upper Ohio River Valley are in the midst of an energy boom as companies pay them for the rights to oil and gas reserves on their property. The rest is here: Mineral Leases Give Boost to Rural Ohio

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NRA-Backed Court Battle Decided After 13 Years Read more from the original source: NRA-Backed Court Battle Decided After 13 Years

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Environment groups have called for an immediate halt to development around the Great Barrier Reef after a United Nations report expressed ''extreme concern'' about its future. Read more here: UNESCO report scathing of Great Barrier Reef management

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Hundreds of crown-of-thorns starfish found on a beach in southern Japan in January stranded themselves because they were starving, say researchers. See more here: 'Starving' crown-of-thorns starfish in mass stranding

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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 1, 2012 (IPS) - As the international community readies for a global mega- conference on sustainable development in Brazil mid-June, the United Nations is determined to practice what it preaches to the outside world: improve resource efficiency and drastically reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. Excerpt from: U.N. Aims To Offset its Own Carbon Footprint

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ScienceDaily (June 3, 2012) - In cities, the presence of algae, lichens, and mosses is not considered desirable and they are often removed from roofs and walls. Here is the original post: Wallflowers of the Earth System

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ScienceDaily (June 3, 2012) - A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA -- the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T) -- is more open to unnatural letters than had previously been thought. Go here to read the...

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Brazil's vast forests lost some legal protections last week, but less than environmentalists had feared. On 28 May, President Dilma Rousseff vetoed a dozen sections of the revamped forest code passed a month earlier by the lower house of Brazil's National Congress Read the original: President prunes forest reforms

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BERLIN, Jun 4, 2012 (IPS) - Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation (ZNLD) to be adopted at the upcoming Conference on Sustainable Development, known...