Talk about getting your feet wet. Hundreds of Collier County middle school students got the chance to experience the outdoors up close and personal thanks to a state environment program.

Pet owners have been advised about potential adverse health effects related to two varieties of Premium Edge cat food and several dog chew-toy products manufactured by the Pet Carousel company. In the unlikely event that any of the affected products made

A Winnipeg hotel was shut down for several violations on Friday.

This distant dot in the Aleutian Islands needed just 10 students for its school to dodge a fatal cut from the state budget. It reached across Alaska and beyond but could find only nine.

In the Forest Rehauer begin in February, the construction of Upper Franconia only green bridge over the A93. It will bring back the wild animals their centuries-old routes through the Fichtelgebirge again.

One boy in California collects old sneakers to give to underpriveleges children in the United States and elsewhere. So far, he has collected and donated more than 3,000 pairs through his Share Our Soles (S.O.S.) Charity.

Not only are the medals for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games trippy, they are made from recycled circuit boards.

The state of Acre in western Brazil gained notoriety in 1988 when cattle ranchers murdered Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper who campaigned against the destruction of the Amazon forest.

Katha Pollitt's searing piece for The Nation, in which she calls out Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tilda Swinton, and the other "international culture stars" who have stepped forward to support a man who drugged and raped a 13-year-old

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