Have you ever looked at two bins of apples, one labeled "organic," and the other "conventional," and wondered if the apples might not be the same? I have. And since discovering a little secret of the produce industry, I've found ....

DRINKING bottled water is so anti-environment that it should be made as unfashionable as smoking. A British study has found that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car a kilometre.

CHINA has abandoned controversial plans to build a huge dam that would have submerged one of the country's most renowned tourist areas and forced the relocation of 100,000 people in the south-western province of Yunnan.

Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun--maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it--is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America's reckless ethanol subsidies.

ST. LOUIS - An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands Sunday in a swath from the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes as even colder weather threatened.

If you are concerned with civil rights and/or the health and well-being of pets, wildlife, and the oceans please give a moment of your time to this pressing issue in California. People and animals are being sprayed with untested chemicals...

BALTIMORE - Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind.

The great drought of 2007 has been devastating to many of Alabama's farm families. On the days I drive from my home in Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, I pass field after field of burned-up corn and knee-high cotton. The economic toll on rural

The Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting comments on its proposal to designate critical habitat for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. Even though the proposal is a great step forward, it needs to be strengthened to include more essential lands needed

Speak out for permanent protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Urge Congress to support the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 39) -- and permanent protection for vital polar bear habitat.