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At least 2,000 police officers and men in plain clothes overwhelmed villagers in the Van Giang district who had tried to block them from taking control of a disputed plot of land on Tuesday.

A UK-Indian team of scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of limbless amphibian.

For years, scientists tracking global patterns in biodiversity have focused on the distribution of plants, birds and mammals to identify areas that are conservation priorities.

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has delayed voting on controversial legislation that stipulates how much land farmers must preserve as forest.

Europe is doing it, Brazil is doing it, and now Mexico is doing it too. The country has passed a package of laws committing it to act on climate change. It is only the second developing nation to set greenhouse gas emissions cuts in the letter of the law.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2012) – Palms can do much more than sway on beaches of pure white sand. According to new research from Aarhus University, they can predict the future by telling the story of how flora and fauna have been affected by climate change for millions of years.

Some 30 islands, out of the 15,000 or so in the Mediterranean, have been selected to monitor changes affecting this huge area, one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots.

MONTREAL – A unique, all-season study of the effects of global warming in the Arctic Ocean shows that climate change is reducing biodiversity and posing “significant challenges to the survival of some of the Arctic’s unique marine species.”

NEW YORK, April 24 (UPI) — Urban “heat islands,” chronically elevated city heat levels, are driving some city trees to grow far better than their country cousins, U.S. researchers say.

Major risks to food security have successfully helped to push agriculture and food policy higher up the international development agenda, according to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).