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The state of Alaska filed notice on Friday that it will appeal a federal judge's ruling upholding the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. Read the original here: Alaska Files Notice Of Appeal On Polar Bear Listing

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Five southern African countries have signed into place the region's biggest and most ambitious transfrontier conservation project yet. Go here to read the rest: Five African Nations Sign Up for Conservation Zone the Size of California

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Washington Imposes New Fees to Use Public Lands - Some Hunters May Be Double-Taxed! Continued here: Washington Imposes New Fees to Use Public Lands - Some Hunters May Be Double-Taxed!

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August 29, 2011 The SAFE California Campaign announced today a ballot initiative for the 2012 general election to replace California’s death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole. The initiative would convert death penalty sentences to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. “The death penalty system in California is broken and there is growing...

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Crime Lab Confidential: DA and SFPD Withheld Damaging Memo About DNA Lab Failings SF Weekly – August 24, 2011 On Feb. 9, 2010, San Francisco residents Emon Brown and Joc Wilson were acquitted of all charges in a double murder trial that had lasted five months. The outcome was undoubtedly a relief to the two men and a...

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On August 26th, we blogged on the NLRB’s New Poster Requirement for 2011. We anticipate receiving many questions about this new requirement. In anticipation... See the original post here: Some Quick Answers on the New NLRA Posting

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Online daily deals site Groupon has been sued over their advertising. A class action lawsuit alleges the site engages in illegal "bait-and-switch advertising" practices . The plaintiff in the proposed class-action case is a San Francisco tour operator who accuses Groupon of purchasing tour-related keywords in Google's AdWords service, according to Ad Week. This may seem like an...

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Windhoek - Namibian traditional authorities say the Draft Access and Benefit Sharing Bill is long overdue, as traditional communities have been exploited long enough. Original post: Namibia: Traditional Authorities Welcome Benefit Sharing Bill

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Last week the chief executive officer of the National Biodiversity Authority, Dr Roy Mugira, lost his job because, according to the authority, he had advised the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service to allow the World Food Programme to bring into the country untested corn-soy relief food from the US. View original post here: Kenya: Genetic Engineering - the...

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An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage variety of a plant called Brassica rapa, a close relative of oilseed rape. Go here to read the rest: New genome sequence could improve important agricultural crops