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Food Not Fit for a Dog

U.S. farmers are in a near panic because of growing uncertainty over genetically modified crops, and the American Corn Growers Association has even claimed that multinational seed and chemical companies […]

Pop Goes the Treaty

Negotiators from 115 countries have reached tentative agreement to end the production of eight dangerous chemicals as early as 2003 or 2004, when an international treaty on phasing out the […]

In Case You Still Haven't Reached for the Prozac

Costa Rica’s golden toad has gone extinct because its natural habitat has dried up, sending a warning that freshwater species and habitats around the world are in serious trouble, according […]

Today's Financial Advice: Avoid Long-Term Investments

Emissions of greenhouse gases could rise enormously over the next 100 years, according to a draft report by leading climatologists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC researchers […]

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor in Business

A U.K. government report to be released next week will name and shame supermarkets that sell produce tainted with pesticides. Thirty percent of the food samples tested for the report […]

Dumbo Cancels Appearance at Bangkok Film Festival

The World Wildlife Fund in Thailand has launched a year-long campaign to end the rampant ivory trade in the nation, whose national symbol, ironically, is the elephant. Traders exploit legal […]

This One's Not All Good News, But We're Desperate

Carbon-monoxide levels seem to be steadily decreasing over the eastern U.S., signaling that polices to reduce pollution may be succeeding, according to University of Maryland scientists who published their findings […]

"Darn," Says Company Oil Spokesperson, "Guess We'll Just Have to Raise Prices."

Democrats won a small victory in the Senate yesterday when they blocked an effort to keep oil companies from having to pay increased royalties when they drill on public land. […]

Meanwhile, Baca the Ranch …

A 95,000-acre cattle ranch in northern New Mexico, home to one of the largest wild elk herds in the U.S., is poised to become public land under a deal struck […]

Fortunately, Most Lithuanians Now Glow in the Dark

Lithuania, the most nuclear-dependent country in the world, announced plans yesterday to decommission by 2005 one of the two Soviet-era nuclear reactors at its Ignalina nuclear power plant. No decisions […]