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Australia's parliament endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from Continue reading here: Australia passes CO2 offset laws, carbon pricing next

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Corals and molluscs are able to protect themselves from the affects of acidic oceans, but only to a point, say marine scientists who have measured individual species resilience to pH change. Read more: Calcifiers cover up changes in ocean pH

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One of the world's most endangered cats, the Iberian lynx, may not be doomed by its tiny population size. Read more: Iberian lynx 'not doomed' by low genetic diversity

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Kenyan MPs and the UN's World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. Read more: International Condemnation of Controversial Dam Grows

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Time is running out to craft a plan to save Earth's rich diversity of mammals, a quarter of whose species could be wiped out, biologists warned on Tuesday. See the original post here: Time for new strategy to save mammals, say biologists

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Conservationists are calling on the Government to revoke dozens of new licences for oil and gas exploration in UK waters, fearing hundreds of thousands of seabirds could be at risk if they are granted. Read more from the original source: Seabirds in danger from new oil exploration, RSPB warns

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WA: Hunters Urged to Speak Out Against Lead Ban Go here to read the rest: WA: Hunters Urged to Speak Out Against Lead Ban

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The abuses put innocent people in jail, set guilty people free...[Full story at: http://projects.usatoday.com/news/2010/justice/ ] Follow this link: Justice in the balance – A USA TODAY investigation documented 201 criminal cases across the nation in which federal judges found that...

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By TANG LOR -DN Staff Writer – Redbluff/Tehama County Daily News Updated: 08/20/2011 07:39:43 AM PDT How will Tehama County deal with the influx of prisoners that will now fall under the responsibility of local authorities? Law enforcement, county officials and representatives from the legal system met Thursday during the first meeting of the Community Corrections Partnership to...

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San Bernardino County DA Ramos, Sheriff Hoops address looming effects of prisoners’ release Melissa Pinion-Whitt, Staff Writer -The Sun (San Bernardino / Inland Empire) Posted: 08/19/2011 02:53:05 PM PDT San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos on Friday compared two looming deadlines for the decrease of state prisoners to a pair of trains on a collision course....