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

Big Oil and greedy banks are working to prevent a strong and just global climate framework in Copenhagen - protecting their profits at the expense of people and our planet. Chief among those are Canada's biggest oil companies and Royal Bank of Canada (RB

Every 20 minutes a species will go extinct, 20,000 species this year, and this Sunday, November 22, 8PM Eastern MSNBC will be airing "100 Heartbeats" hosted by Jeff Corwin to fight back

Coming soon to a theater near you: the story of Nubs, a stray dog with shorn ears who befriended Maj. Brian Dennis while Dennis was serving in Iraq. When Nubs trekked 75 miles through the freezing Iraqi desert to follow Dennis to the next camp, Dennis

Authorities in Bolivia have given their last minute approval to a bullfight of 11-year-old Juan Mauricio Copa despite protests of child protection and anti-bullfighting organisations

In response to public outcry of a videotaped beating of a Labrador Retriever, Romeo- on April 16, 2008 Kentucky passed S.B. 58 (dubbed Romeo's law) which amended § 525.135 to state that the "torture of a dog or cat is a Class A misdemeanor for the first

Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment she started raising pastured chickens outside Concord, Mass. in 2002, there was, as she put it "nowhere to go to get them processed." While she had the option of slaughtering her

Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc

Hubbs-Seaworld announced on Wednesday that it will not move forward at this time with plans for an industrial ocean fish farm off the coast of Southern California. Thanks to pressure from you and a complicated regulatory process, Hubbs is now waiting unt

Tigers are fast disappearing in the wild, due in large part to increasing illegal wildlife trade across Asia.