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GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 25, 2011 (IPS) - The "green economy" will not solve the problems of poverty and natural disasters in Central America as long as the development model continues to be based on over-consumption and over-production, regional experts say. Read more: 'Green Economy' Not a Panacea

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(Reuters) - An appeals court has refused to block wolf hunts planned in Idaho and Montana while conservation groups press a legal case against an unprecedented act of Congress that lifted federal protection of the animals. Follow this link: Court denies stay of wolf hunts in two states

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2011) - Most synthetic chemical products used in consumer goods end up unchanged in the environment. Given the risks this could pose for the environment and human health, researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have developed a new tool to effectively predict what will happen to current and future pharmaceutical products. Originally posted...

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2011) - Zoologists at Oregon State University have discovered that a freshwater species of zooplankton will eat a fungal pathogen which is devastating amphibian populations around the world. See more here: Possible Biological Control Discovered for Pathogen Devastating Amphibians

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2011) - In one of the first taxonomic revisions of Neotropical butterflies that utilizes 'DNA barcoding', Andrei Sourakov (University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Evgeny Zakharov (University of Guelph, Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario) uncovered a spectacular degree of evolutionary divergence within the satyrine butterfly genus...

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A monkey sporting a ginger beard and matching fiery red tail, discovered in a threatened region of the Brazilian Amazon, is believed to be a species new to science. See original here: New monkey species discovered in the Amazon

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Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, but scientists are unsure as to why. Read this article: Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa

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Scientists believe they may have partly explained the mystery of the growing number of dead seals being washed up on UK shores exhibiting horrific "corkscrew" injuries. Read more from the original source: Seal deaths may be fatal attraction

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[ANTANANARIVO] Fishermen in Haiti and some African countries could lose their livelihoods as ocean acidification causes a decline in mollusc populations, a study has found. Here is the original post: Africa's mollusc stocks at risk from ocean acidification

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The industry is faced with increasingly pressing challenges but embedding ethics into core strategy makes good business sense Read more: Integrating ethics into tourism: beyond codes of conduct