Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in ...

Kraft Foods Inc.'s Louis Rich meat business recalled about 11,800 pounds of turkey ham because some packages sold in the U.S. and abroad may be contaminated with listeria, bacteria that can make ...

In this report we have attempted to evaluate the ecological and economic consequences of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

In the past, engineers and biologists commonly removed large woody debris (LWD)-logs larger than 18" in diameter and longer than 12 feet-from streams throughout the West to improve fish passage and ...

China's emission of major pollutants -- sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD) -- over the first nine months of the year dropped for the first time in several years, a senior official with ...

Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition - and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs. In November 2004, Guatemala's Congress repealed ...

The province is considering setting up a special fund to help the struggling forestry sector in northern Ontario, similar to a $500 million program that helps the auto industry attract new investment, ...

Many chefs understand the benefits of buying directly from a local farmer. Local farmers are can provide a fresh tasting, high quality product with a longer shelf life. A chef that develops an ongoing ...

Mexico is facing a growing mountain of hazardous waste, despite an environmental accord with the US and a continental trade deal that were supposed to discourage further environmental degradation. The ...

Introduced species are a growing and imminent threat to living marine resources in the United States. Hundreds of species arrive in U.S. waters from overseas each day, playing a game of ecological ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...