Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in ...

Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition - and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs. In November 2004, Guatemala's Congress repealed ...

The province is considering setting up a special fund to help the struggling forestry sector in northern Ontario, similar to a $500 million program that helps the auto industry attract new investment, ...

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the ...

Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

Wetlands, now valued by Minnesotans -- but hardly preserved -- were once considered a scourge, here and elsewhere in the eastern United States. In part this was because wetlands impeded settlement.

Rather than destroy the frozen meat or cook it to kill pathogens, executives at one of the world's largest food conglomerates sold it to other countries with lower standards than South Korea's - ...

Despite a range of climate policies backing factory farm gas, the emerging sector is highly controversial, particularly in rural communities where the highly polluting operations are located.

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

This note is intended to assist in the preparation of offers, requests and national schedules of specific commitments. Its objective is to explain, in a concise manner, how specific commitments should ...

Question: When you wipe your nose with a Kleenex, are you helping wipe out ancient forests? Answer: That depends entirely on who you ask. The environmental groups Greenpeace and the Natural Resources ...