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Coffee production in parts of East Africa and South America could suffer as climate change drives up the numbers and distribution of a key pest, according to research. Read the original post: Climate change could drive spread of major coffee pest

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PARIS - The UN's talks on climate change are daft and crippled by finger-pointing and the need for consensus, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was quoted on Thursday by Le Monde as saying. See the original post here: UN climate talks 'stupid and endless' - Maldives

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LONDON -- Climate change has all but fallen off the political agenda across Europe as the resurging economic crisis empties national coffers and shakes economic confidence, and the public and the press turn their attention to more immediate issues of rising fuels bills and joblessness, analysts say. Read the original post: Climate Change Tumbles Down Europe's Political Agenda...

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Nairobi - For Haleka Shishay, being unemployed left him feeling desperate. A resident of the Tahtai Maichew district in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Shishay used to travel during the rainy season to find seasonal work. That was before bees came into his life. Today, Shishay, 25, is the proud owner of bee hives that now give him a regular...

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CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) - Degradation of land is the world's quiet crisis, undercutting food production, increasing water scarcity, impoverishing hundreds of millions of people and affecting two billion overall. Nearly 20 million square kilometres of the earth's arable lands - an area twice the size of Canada - have already been degraded. Read the...

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The moratorium on clearing Amazon rainforest for soy farms in Brazil appears to be maintaining its effectiveness for a fifth straight year, reports the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE). Go here to see the original: Soy moratorium in Amazon maintaining its effectiveness

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Newswise - ANN ARBOR, Mich.---North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated. Go here to see the original: Future Forests May Soak Up More Carbon Dioxide than Previously Believed

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Curbing climate change by paying to protect the world's forests has proved much more challenging than first expected - mainly because of rising demand for forest land to grow food, widespread economic recession and failing efforts to create a global carbon market. See more here: Forest protection efforts faltering - experts

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Colombia's presidential advisor for biodiversity has condemned the killing of around 2,000 sharks in Colombian waters by Costa Rican fishermen. View post: Colombia condemns killing of sharks in Colombian Pacific for fins

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The Los Angeles Times (reported by Molly Hennessy-Fiske in Houston) – October 13, 2011 A Texas appeals court has formally exonerated a man set free last week after he spent nearly 25 years in prison for his wife’s 1986 killing, which DNA tests indicate another man committed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday declared Michael Morton...