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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejects the latest appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents. But Bob and Mary Schindler are continuing to urge Florida officials to help them reconnect their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube.

In 1996 the Florida State legislature passed a bill declaring the Zebra Longwing as Florida’s State Butterfly. This might be a good choice for the designation because nowhere is this species more common than in Florida. It is found throughout the state in somewhat shaded habitats – especially in wetter areas where their favored passionflowers occur. This is a butterfly that prefers habitats with relatively dense foliage in which it can easily move from sunlight to shade. Trees and shrubs are important to it for use as communal roosts. We have had a dozen or more Zebra Longwings roosting each evening in shrubs beneath a live oak and a cabbage palm in our back yard. Roosts including as many as 75 Zebra Longwings have been reported. The general consensus for such communal roosts seems to be the adage “there’s safety in numbers”.

For small-scale farmers in underdeveloped countries around the world, who often have no access to capital or most of the technologies and amenities we take for granted, the idea of being more sustainable isn’t something to strive for but a true necessity. Located in North Fort Myers on a 57-acre campus, the nonprofit ECHO has been working to disseminate information to help these farmers since 1981. They grow different varieties of plants, and test different growing techniques, in order to provide proven techniques and even seeds to small-scale farmers. They distribute more than 300 varieties of ECHO seeds. This information is sent out through their massive, global network of farmers and agriculturalists in more than 190 countries. We get an update on the work they do with their CEO, Dr. Abram Bicksler.

One of the really big challenges facing our world is how to grow more food without using up the globe's land and water. One company in Ohio says we've been ignoring one solution: insects. It's using larvae of the black soldier fly to convert waste into feed for fish or pigs.

Ninety percent of the seagrass has died in an important estuary, leaving manatees without enough to eat. More than 1,000 manatees have died, and many others are emaciated and distressed.

Farmers in the communist nation were once banned from freely selling their crops. As the country struggles to feed itself, the government has begun to accept a greater role for the profit motive. Now each night, in a muddy vacant lot on the edge of Havana, a market appears after sundown.

Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They're reproducing rapidly in part because of unusual rainfall patterns.

St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon say the ordinance restricting them to two free meal giveaways per week violates their constitutional right to religious expression.

Some residents of Smyth County, Va., are struggling to pay the bills and feed their families. Robbie Hankins works full-time, and his wife, Wreatha, works part-time. Yet the couple must resort to extraordinary measures to keep food on the table.

What if Twitter existed 50 years ago, on this monumental anniversary of the March on Washington? Our answer: @TodayIn1963. We've been reporting events of the summer of '63 as if they were happening now, in real-time, through this Twitter account.