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Guest post by Jennifer K. Halford, Esq. It is very common for businesses to provide their customers with an invoice to request payment for goods or services that have been provided. In so doing, you are trusting that your customers will pay the amount requested. You are also trusting that they will pay on time. But customers don't...

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KALW Public Radio San Francisco 91.7 FM – By Rina Palta – April 30, 2012 At the moment, Austin Hills is wearing an orange t-shirt, orange pants, and wrist shackles. He’s sitting in an interview room ... Go here to see the original: Could bail reform bail out California’s overcrowded jails?

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A warming climate makes for a brutal allergy season in the U.S., which may become even worse in future Read more here: Climate Change Expands Allergy Risk

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A handful of plant collectors has shaped the field of botany. Now they are disappearing, and there are no clear successors See the original post here: Superstars of botany: Rare specimens

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SAN JULIÁN, El Salvador, Apr 30, 2012 (IPS) - María Elena Muñoz industriously weeds a clearing in the forest and then digs several holes, where she and another four dozen women are planting plantain seedlings, to help feed their families in this poor farming area in El Salvador. See more here: Energy Forests, the Feminine Art of Reforesting

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Nairobi - Conservation experts from Kenya and Ethiopia have drawn a roadmap for ensuring the survival of an endangered type of zebra. More: East Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia Vow to Save Endangered Grevy Zebra

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While global warming devastates most coral, it also is predicted to bring a stronger deep equatorial undercurrent that could create a bit of habitat alongside islands Read more here: Warming Ocean Current Might Create Coral Refuges

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The first cygnet of the year at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset is the earliest since records began in 1393. Go here to see the original: Cygnet hatching in Abbotsbury marks first day of summer

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2012) - In a rapid communication just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, biologist Douglas Swain of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and Robert Mohn, emeritus scientist, at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography present findings that suggest the delay in recovery of Atlantic cod on the eastern Scotian Shelf could be attributed...

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At present, close to one billion people suffer from hunger. Experts agree that there is a high risk of climate change affecting food security at the global level, with the most negative impacts in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. Originally posted here: Solutions for a hungry world - Connecting the dots: Understanding climate impacts on food security...