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Nicknamed the "dwarf barista," Elsa Sallard of El Paso, Texas has reached a settlement with Starbucks over a disability discrimination lawsuit brought on her behalf by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Born with dwarfism, a local Starbucks fired Sallard after she requested a stool to compensate for her small stature--a reasonable accommodation under the American with Disabilities Act....

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(September 8, 2011) California employers and insurers scored a victory in a recent California Supreme Court decision on annual cost-of-living adjustments for certain workers'... See more here: Court Ruling on Cost-of-Living Adjustments Is Workers’ Comp Victory for Employers

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The duel between Amazon and California over sales tax may finally be coming to a conclusion. A new Amazon sales tax deal would allow Amazon to postpone collecting sales tax from California consumers until September 2012. This tentative deal comes only after the California legislature was unable to pass a vote that would have forced Amazon to start...

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[THIMPU] Agricultural experts in the Himalayan country of Bhutan - a least developed country - are concerned at increasing crop losses in recent years, attributable to global warming. Visit link: Bhutan faces crop losses from erratic climate

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HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad chapter of World Wildlife Foundation-India (WWF) on Thursday launched its 'Cities for Forests Campaign' in the city to raise awareness about the need for urban forests. Read the original here: WWF launches new urban forests campaign

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MEXICO CITY, Sept 8, 2011 (IPS) - Maize, Mexico's staple food as well as a symbol, has the potential to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects without any need for genetically modified seeds, according to agricultural scientists. Read the original post: Traditional Maize Can Cope with Climate Change

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The South Asian region which includes Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka and Maldives is home to over one and one-half billion human population, one fifth of the global population. See the original post here: Adapting to climate change impacts in South Asia

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Clouds could be made more reflective and oceans fertilised to increase carbon dioxide absorption under ideas to be discussed at Australia's first high-level climate engineering conference later this month. See more here: Australia to broach radical global warming solutions

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The long held view that adaptation and mitigation are mutually exclusive approaches for reducing the impacts of climate change has been questioned in a recent study, with the beginnings of an integrative approach in many forestry projects in Latin America showing improved outcomes at the local level. Read the original: Climate Conversations - Combining adaptation and mitigation in...

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An endangered species of horse -- known as Przewalski's horse -- is much more distantly related to the domestic horse than researchers had previously hypothesized, reports a team of investigators led by Kateryna Makova, a Penn State University associate professor of biology. More here: Endangered horse has ancient origins and high genetic diversity, new study finds