AN 11-stone dog escaped unscathed after accidentally swallowing a 62cm stick. Hector, a one-year-old Great Dane, swallowed the stick while playing in the garden at his home in Wheathampstead.

This is a gadget that can save lives! One LifeStraw Family portable water purifier can make potable drinking water for a family of 5 for a year, and only costs $15 US or 3.50 Euro.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill that bans lead from children's toys and other products. The measure also bans, either permanently or pending further study, children's goods that contain chemicals called phthalates...

View an interactive Google map that summarizes reported and actual mercury emissions from more than a third of all the U.S. cement kilns.

State wildlife biologists killed 14 wolf pups on the Alaska Peninsula as part of a predator control program to help a struggling caribou herd.

Triclosan persists in the environment, breaks down into substances highly toxic to wildlife, pollutes the human body, and poses health risks that are barely studied and poorly understood.

I would call up Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube and watch it with my children, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price: that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did this

the consistency of the results observed in the present study... indicate that many ASD patients have urinaryporphyrin profiles consistent with significantly increased body burdens of mercury.

Today, 63 percent of households own a pet, up from 56 percent two decades ago, and most consider their pet like a child or other family member. The trend is giving way to a budding industry of pet sitters, dog walkers and doggie day cares

Training a dog is important and not just so you can show off by making your pet sit for company. An obedient dog means a calmer household, a stronger bond between pet and owner and a dog who's more content because he knows his role.