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By a Metropolitian-News Enterprise Staff Writer – Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Funeral services are set for former Los Angeles Public Defender Wilbur “Bill” Littlefield, who died Saturday at the age of 90. The cause of death was ... Here is the original post: Services Set for Wilbur Littlefield, 90, Longtime County Public Defender

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Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 Introduced in Senate Read the original post: Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 Introduced in Senate

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He is so long-lived that he has surpassed all expectations, touching hearts throughout the American continent, bringing together scientists and schools, inspiring a play and now even his own biography. Continued here: B95, the great survivor

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The world's top river basin regions have a vital role in the future in terms of sustaining economic growth in the future, a report has suggested. Excerpt from: River basins 'vital for growth'

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Twenty years ago, a burst of sunny optimism radiated from Rio de Janeiro as world leaders staged a meeting that would prove pivotal. See the article here: Rio summit seeks to help sick planet

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Ahead of the Rio+20 sustainable development talks Jonathan Watts visits a tree planting scheme that aims to restore millions of hectares of forest to land scarred by logging and extraction Visit link: Brazil's blueprint for reforestation

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ScienceDaily (June 11, 2012) - Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures, according to a study by UC Irvine and other researchers in a recent online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more here: Global Warming Threat Seen in Fertile Soil of Northeastern U.S. Forests

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LIVERMORE, Calif., June 11 (UPI) -- Human activity has been the primary cause of global ocean warming during the past 50 years, a team of U.S. and international researchers says. Read more: 50 yrs. of ocean warming attributed to man

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ANAPU, Brazil - Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by expanding agribusiness. Excerpt from: Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon

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The ABA Journal – By Debra Cassens Weiss – June 11, 2012 A Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer has been convicted based on allegations he laundered $200,000 for a client who turned out to be a paid ... Continue reading here: Mass. Criminal Defense Lawyer Is Convicted of Helping Client Launder $200K