Mountains and streams, tall grasses and redwoods, bison and bears -- from sea to shining sea.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday

As far as national mascots go Australia's is one of the cutest, but unfortunately the cuddly critters are also seriously endangered. Australia's koalas could become extinct in as little as 30 years.

Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Association, recently intervened as friends of the court in a federal consumer class-action lawsuit accusing the nation's largest supplier of privat

Animals matter to billions of people around the world. They matter to people like you. Yet, all over the world, animals are suffering. You can help them, visit http://www.makeanimalsmatter.ca.

A Mexican drug cartel, including 15 people whose federal indictments were announced today, distributed thousands of pounds of cocaine and collected millions of dollars in the Chicago area in recent years, authorities alleged today.

An interesting development just in concerning Massey Energy's Bee Tree Mine, the Southern West Virginia operation where environmentalists had hoped to put a wind energy facility instead of a mountaintop removal job.

Greenpeace has sent me an email today. Their efforts to end Japanese whale hunting are working finally!! My share is in Spanish, but here it is: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/. Enjoy the good news!! And help if you can!! -- Have a green day!!

Three men are accused of using the popular Web site Craigslist to rob a number of people by luring them to alleys on the promise of selling them televisions and other items, Chicago police said

the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection quietly cited Massey subsidiary Marfork Coal Co. for using too large a load of explosives in its blasting operations at Bee Tree mine.