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Ahead of the Rio+20 sustainable development talks Jonathan Watts visits a tree planting scheme that aims to restore millions of hectares of forest to land scarred by logging and extraction Visit link: Brazil's blueprint for reforestation

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LIVERMORE, Calif., June 11 (UPI) -- Human activity has been the primary cause of global ocean warming during the past 50 years, a team of U.S. and international researchers says. Read more: 50 yrs. of ocean warming attributed to man

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Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 Introduced in Senate Read the original post: Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 Introduced in Senate

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ScienceDaily (June 11, 2012) - Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures, according to a study by UC Irvine and other researchers in a recent online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more here: Global Warming Threat Seen in Fertile Soil of Northeastern U.S. Forests

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The ABA Journal – By Debra Cassens Weiss – June 11, 2012 A Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer has been convicted based on allegations he laundered $200,000 for a client who turned out to be a paid ... Continue reading here: Mass. Criminal Defense Lawyer Is Convicted of Helping Client Launder $200K

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[NEW DELHI] An absence of strong scientific and policy research in developing countries has stifled their ability to contribute to Rio+20 debates, according to some South Asian development policy analysts. Read the original here: Rio+20 solutions too Northern, say South Asian analysts

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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9, 2012 (IPS) - When the heavily hyped three-day U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) comes to a close in Rio de Janeiro Jun. 22, what would be the yardstick to measure its successes and failures? Read the rest here: How Would You Measure Success at the Rio Summit?

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At the age of 12, she silenced the world for six minutes at the first UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. 20 years later, Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki has made her name known, and her voice heard. Go here to see the original: 'Rio girl' Severn Cullis-Suzuki 20 years on

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Last month ten African nations, led by Botswana, pledged to incorporate "natural capital" into their economies. View post: Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account

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(CNN) -- Scientists in the Arctic have discovered the largest ever under-ice bloom of phytoplankton, likening the discovery to "finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert." See the original post: Melting Arctic 'blooms' with algae