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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying...
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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Connecticut Takes First Step Toward GMO Labeling Law
Connecticut legislative committee backs a labeling requirement for genetically modified foods.
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Poo-Powered Tuk Tuk Hits the Denver Zoo
The motorized tuk tuk is part of a system that will convert more than 90 percent of the zoo's waste—1.5 million pounds annually—into energy.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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Nigerian Villages Take Shell to Court Over Oil Spills in Groundbreaking Case
Lawyers representing 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell's slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.
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Hi Kids! Biotech Industry Gets Into the Education With "Biotechnology Basics...
A book from the Council for Biotechnology Information, "Look Closer at Biotechnology," is meant to be used by agriculture and science teachers.
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Map Shows the Country's Dirtiest Air: Are You In a Deadly Zone?
An American Lung Association map shows how power plant pollution spreads, and concentrates, around the country.
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How U.S. Food Aid Can Reach 17.1 Million More People At No Extra Cost to...
What if the U.S. spent the same amount of money on food aid, but made it more efficient by doing things like sourcing food locally?
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Organic Family Farmers Appeal District Court's Dismissal of Monsanto Lawsuit
Farmers seek to assert and protect their right to grow organic crops without the threat of contamination by Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds.
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Shell Oil President: "There Is No Immediate Fix For the Price of Oil Today"
Shell Oil President talks with Charlie Rose about energy and says there is no immediate fix for soaring gas prices, despite GOP attacks against the president on this issue.
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EPA Orders Oil Companies to Pay for Contamination of Montana Town's Water Supply
More than 40 million gallons of brine have entered the drinking water aquifer over five decades. Now, the EPA is holding three oil companies at least partly responsible for the contamination.
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How Much Do People Everywhere Hate Monsanto? New Report Shows Global Resistance
A new report illustrates the struggles against Monsanto, and the agribusiness model it embodies, being led by small-holder and organic farmers, local communities and social movements around the world.
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont Over GMO Labeling Law
Vermont is one of nearly 20 states considering a GMO labeling requirement for food, but it won't pass if Monsanto has anything to say about it. And it does.
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Environmental Groups Sue the EPA Over Delay on Coal Ash Regulations
The EPA pledged new regulations after the TVA coal ash spill, but has been sitting on two proposals for two years now, and the problems that led to TVA are still rampant nationwide.
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Happy Birthday Jane Goodall! How to Celebrate Her Work -- And Help Chimpanzees
It was Jane Goodall's birthday earlier this week — she's 78! Celebrate her accomplishments and help the world's endangered chimpanzees.
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Poland to Ban Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Corn
Following anti-Monsanto activism in other countries, Poland has announced plans to completely ban the growth of Monsanto’s genetically modified strain MON810.
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With "Roundup Ready PLUS" Monsanto Capitalizes on the Superweeds It Created
For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.
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EPA Denies NRDC Request to Ban Weed Killer, Cites Industry Study to Prove...
NRDC had petitioned the agency in 2008 to revoke all 2,4-D tolerances and product registrations, citing studies pointing to links between 2,4-D and cancer, hormone disruption, genetic mutations and...
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Foreign Companies Eye Sacred Mountains in Montana and India for New Mines
They're on opposite sides of the world, but two mountains sacred to the tribal communities that live near them are up against a similar threat: mining.
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Hope Fades for Oil Spill Cleanup in Nigeria
Last year, UNEP released a report calling for a $1 billion cleanup fund for years of oil spills in the Niger Delta, but eight months later, there is little more than silence on the issue.
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Russian Mother Takes On Government, Powerful Interests to Save Moscow's...
"The proposed road is not so much just the road, as a larger land grab."
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TreeHugger Interviews the Philippine Mine-Stopping, Goldman Prize-Winning...
"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."
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Inupiat Woman Wins Goldman Prize for Leading Fight Against Arctic Drilling
"We would like to live a traditional culture life. We should be given that option."
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Why Cuba's Sustainability is Not an Accident
The government of Cuba deserves credit for integrating sustainability, very intentionally, into policy initiatives.
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USDA Map: "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food"
A neat resource from the USDA that shows agency-supported projects and programs related to local and regional food systems.
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Who Were the First 100 Chimpanzees in the United States?
Lori Gruen's compilation of all the details she could find on their lives and deaths.
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From Fracking to Water Rights: How Foreign Interests Are Cleaning Out Africa
“Africa will be the backbone of our production and growth in the next 10 years.”
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Turkana Woman Fights Ethiopia, Kenya Dam Project in the Already Arid,...
"The Ministry of Energy has insisted that they need this energy. What we are questioning is—how was the agreement reached, what is the cost of purchasing this power?"
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Illegal Amazon Gold: Fight to Protect the Amazon Unites Celebrity Artists,...
"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"
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Ma Jun Takes on Technology, Apparel Industries and Chinese Government to...
Though they have no regulatory authority, Jun and IPE have managed to get more than 500 companies to publicly disclose plans to reduce pollution, including some of the world's biggest brands—Wal-Mart,...
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