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In Detroit, a passenger may have been the victim of unconstitutional racial profiling as a result of her Middle Eastern appearance.

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[BANGKOK] Thailand has suspended a regulation intended to protect the country's plant varieties after angry opposition from plant breeders. Read the rest here: Plant breeders force rethink of Thai seed law

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MONTREAL, Canada, Sep 12, 2011 (IPS) - Durban should not be the burial ground for the Kyoto Protocol, says Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, about his expectations from the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change happening in his hometown in South Africa later this year. The rest is here: Africa Keen to Ensure Kyoto...

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Solar, wind, biofuels and other renewable sources of energy get the hype, but there's no getting around the fact that most of our electricity still comes from fossil fuels. Read the original here: Carbon Capture Isn't Dangerous. But Is It Worth It?

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Climate change is seriously affecting food production in the Pacific region and could result in rise of hunger and malnutrition in the area, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday. See original here: 'Climate change could increase hunger in Pacific'

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A single Green Climate Fund will not succeed in routing $100 billion per year of funding from the developed to the developing world to combat climate change, according to a white paper published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. More: Single UN Climate Fund Won't Work

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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Restoring and preserving dry-land forests can help provide food and fertilizer on small farms and prevent the recurrence of famine in Kenya and other African countries, a research group said. Read the rest here: Africa Forest Restoration Can Protect Food Security, Group Says

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PENLYNE CASTLE, Sep 12, 2011 (IPS) - Jamaica's Blue Mountains are coffee country. Here, up among the clouds, farmers produce one of the world's most exclusive brands of boutique coffees. Here is the original post: Women Coffee Farmers Seize a Plastic Lifeline

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According to a class action lawsuit filed by a former sales representative at Groupon, overtime pay was not part of the company's compensation package, despite requirements imposed by federal law. Ranita Dailey, the woman behind the suit, alleges that nearly 1,000 U.S.-based sales representatives received no overtime pay until March 2011, when Groupon executives were alerted to the...

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Written by: Benjamin Chambers on Sep 12, 2011 A recent report from the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN), titled, “Bringing Youth Home: A National Movement to Increase Public Safety, Rehabilitate Youth and Save Money,” documented the extraordinary number of states and jurisdictions (at least 24) that are closing or downsizing their youth correctional facilities, due to budget cuts,...