This is insane! The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a U.S. appeals court said Friday so that companies who don't test, due to the expense, won't have to.

A research team found 31 hardy trees that sequester carbon efficiently for the New York region, mitigating against the impacts of high deforestation and carbon release into the atmosphere in that area. US cities have lost 20% of their trees in 10 yrs.

It originated in South America, where it was once used for medicinal purposes. There are three seeds within the golf-ball-sized fruit. When pressed, its oil can be used as fuel in any standard diesel engine with zero processing, experts say.

The religious right has only six months left in President Bush's term to continue its war on science and its war on women by trying to use the guise of an existing "conscience" requirement to achieve what it cannot accomplish through open politics.

At some point in the next four months, Spain will likely become the first country to extend legal rights to great apes...But there's another ape that might be just as sensitive and intelligent as the great apes...No one stands up for the gibbon.

Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens' Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest.

Kamal was just 16 when gunmen snatched him off the streets of Baghdad, stuffed him in the trunk of a car and whisked him away to a house. But the real terror was about to begin.

the 16-page homophobic comic book featuring Satan, angels, toga-wearing gay people and crude depictions of public officials discussing "anal sodomy" and "Pedifiles."

With all the bad news happening right now, thought everyone could use a laugh!

Remember this photo? This man, a symbol of the Iraq War, just died from huffing. Where was the VA? Where is the outrage?