US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation

After years of complaints from the OCA and our allies, the Department of Justice is investigating how big biotech and food corporations, including Monsanto, are monopolizing and controlling our seeds, food and farming--and they want to hear from YOU.

Natives did not have to be farmers, and...were hunters and gatherers. There was a ready supply of deer, fish, rabbits, fowl, native plants for vegetables, and native fruits. Even so, acorns were the main food source for 3/4 of California Native Americans.

Right now just a handful of companies control most the food we eat. Decades of bad farm policy and unchecked corporate mergers have left massive agribusiness giants with too much power over the food system. This is bad news for both farmers and consumer

ON A COLD winter's day following a storm that covered the surrounding ground and trees in heavy snow, the wood-framed, canvas-covered yurt is snug and warm; its wool-felt insulation blanketing the interior with a pungent lanolin scent.

Monsanto Chief Executive Hugh Grant earned $9.1 million in fiscal 2009, according to a proxy statement filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's a 41 percent drop from his 2008 compensation of $15.6 million.

Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, and perhaps most effective, opponents of President Obama's progressive agenda. They have been looming in the background of every major domestic policy dispute this year. Ranked as the 9th ri

If Facebook is taking over your life, a new website is offering you a way out.The site, Seppukoo.com, offers ritual suicide for Facebook users' virtual profiles by deactivating your account. And it doesn't stop there.

Deforestation and climate change are intimately connected: Globally, deforestation releases nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, and is responsible for nearly 25 percent of man-made CO2 emissions. Lets work together to TAKE ACTION

The lower 48 states in the U.S. have the potential to store an additional 3-7 billion metric tons of carbon in forests, if agricultural lands were to be used for planting forests - equivalent to 2 to 4 years of America's current fossil fuels emmissions.