Environment



On Our Radar: Mislabeled Seafood

A year after a Boston Globe investigation, a new round of DNA testing shows that restaurants and stores across Massachusetts are still mislabeling the fish they are selling. [The Boston Globe]

A ranger working for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is killed in an attack on one of the fund’s antipoaching camps in Rwanda. [Wildlife Extra]

Carbon dioxide emissions are growing so rapidly that an international goal of limiting the ultimate warming of the planet to 3.6 degrees is on the verge of becoming unattainable, researchers report. The study comes as nations confer in Doha, Qatar, on ways to slow the rise in greenhouse gas emissions and the advance of climate change. [The New York Times]

Florida wildlife officials give their agents a rare shoot-to-kill order in the hunt for a young and potentially dangerous Nile crocodile loose near Miami. The state wildlife agency has become particularly wary of nonnative harmful species because a soaring Burmese python population has become impossible to tame. [The Tampa Bay Times]

A program in Salinas, Calif., gives farm workers, most of them first-generation Latino immigrants, an opportunity to move up the job ladder by teaching them how to create and tend organic farms and market produce. [The Associated Press]