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ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) - The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet. Go here to read the rest: Erratic, Extreme Day-To-Day Weather Puts Climate Change in New...

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In a memorable scene in Al Gore's film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, the former US vice-president lampoons a cartoon of a pair of scales that weighs the Earth against a stack of gold bars. Gore's point is that any attempt to compare the merits of the two is ludicrous given their relative importance in the grand...

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NEW YORK, Nov 16, 2011 (IPS) - Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates. See more here: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily

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Reuters) - A worsening of the euro zone debt crisis could increase a climate funding gap to $45 billion by 2015 as governments struggle to maintain levels of climate change investment due to austerity measures, Ernst & Young said on Thursday. See the original post: Euro zone crisis to widen climate fund gap: report

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2011) - Amphibian populations are declining worldwide, and their declines far exceed those of other animal groups: more than 30% of all species are listed as threatened according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Link: Predicting Future Threats for Global Amphibian Biodiversity

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Government experts meeting under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have endorsed a wide-ranging programme to strengthen information available to decision-makers on the spread of invasive alien species (IAS). Read more here: Action plan for information on invasive alien species

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Does BLM Mean What It Says? Link: Does BLM Mean What It Says?

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As previously reported, an issue of keen interest to both employers and employment law attorneys is the long-delayed Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (165 Cal.App.4th 25) decision regarding the duty of employers to provide meal periods to employees.  At the Court of Appeal level, the Brinker decision held favorably for employers that employers only had an affirmative...

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The New York Times – By ERICA GOODE – Published: November 15, 2011 CHICAGO — For 17 years, Terrill Swift and three other men convicted in the 1994 rape and strangulation of a prostitute here have ... See more here: When DNA Evidence Suggests ‘Innocent,’ Some Prosecutors Cling to ‘Maybe’

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County sheriff’s departments are scrambling to adjust. Some officials predict the situation will lead to the release of some inmates. By Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – November 16, 2011 The number of state ... More here: California jails receiving more state prisoners than expected – caused by defense attorneys?