President Obama will give a major speech next week laying out what he thinks needs to be in the health care bill. This is a critical crossroads. The president needs to hear that Americans are counting on him to stand up to the status quo and fight for re

Trapping and pollution almost drove the river otter out of Minnesota. But now, the otter is back, and there's even a report of river otter living in a once badly polluted stretch of the Mississippi river in downtown Minneapolis. Forty-five years

Scientists have been accused for years of scaremongering. But the real scaremongers are those who say we cannot afford climate action,"

Scientists say that mass bee deaths may be caused by viruses that disrupt gene expression.

Almost a fifth of the UK's honeybees died last winter, the British Beekeepers' Association has said.

Home canning, fueled by movements to eat more fruits and vegetables, save money and eat locally, is gaining favor among younger people, a Seattle Web site says.

Common herbs and spices show promise as an environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional pesticides, scientists have told a major US conference.

"They're not making decisions about whether the pesticide can be put on the market based on impacts to bees, no matter how much evidence of harm there is," Colangelo says. "The EPA will just approve it anyway and put a warning label on the product."

If you're looking to declutter your home and simplify your life, if you're like me, one of the hardest areas to deal with is books: getting rid of old ones and cutting back on the expense of buying new ones.

Archaeologists have found more evidence that New Zealand's most dangerous pre-historic predator, co-existed with the earliest Polynesian settlers