Darcia North Wind felt the stares whenever she'd show up at a construction site or the scene of a fire. She passed all the tests to be a firefighter and was able to handle an electric jackhammer as well as her male

. If you breed a pig with similar characteristics, you may owe royalties to Monsanto -- for characteristics they didn't invent, bred by techniques they didn't invent, simply because they've claimed the patent rights

Have you heard the news? Chrysler, the recipient of $15.3 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money -- granted in part because of its promise to invest in electric vehicle technology -- has just announced it is scrapping its plans for producing large volum

Food company giant Dean Foods got caught trying to fool customers into thinking the Silk brand soy milk they produced was organic, a despicable display of fraud........

According to the non-profit Earth Pledge, today some 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used throughout the world to turn raw materials into textiles. Domestically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that one-quarter of all pesticides used nationwide g

One of the best ways to stop the spread of the flu (like H1N1) is for sick people to stay home. But Wal-Mart gives employees "demerits" that can lead to termination if they call in sick.

Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a lobbying and legal organization with thousands of large and small business members across the nation, is taking an aggressive, anti-science stance on the pressing issue of global warming.

SANTA ANA, N.M. - For AMERIND Risk Management Corp., "family-friendly" is a natural extension of the company's basic business mission. The Pueblo of Santa Ana, N.M.-based AMERIND was established by more than 165 Native American housing authorities in...

I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmers, but by and large, they were not typical. Many of them were organic producers. Many were young. Probably a statistically disproportionate number