If you ever feel confused when you look at the numbers inside those triangular recycling symbols on plastic products and containers, here's help. Those numbers tell you which plastics can ... Read More

Tropical rainforest plants have produced thousands of lifesaving drugs since World War II, yet the potential of rainforest medicinals has only barely been tapped. Rainforest lands are disappearing at an alarming ... Read More

At a weekend campaign event in Iowa, presidential contender John McCain started out trying to disparage Barack Obama’s "eloquence" and ended up tripping over his own words. "You know, the other ... Read More

Just in time for Halloween, the EPA is offering a few tips to show you how to save energy, and money, by slaying the energy vampires that may be sucking ... Read More

Congolese rebels have seized Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, a 3,000-square-mile expanse that is home to more than 50 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s biodiversity, including 200 or more of ... Read More

Now that autumn is well under way in the northern hemisphere, deciduous trees are putting on colorful displays of fall foliage and starting to shed their leaves. Although burning piles of ... Read More

Many of us depend on convenient school lunch throwaways to make morning prep time easier, and it can be difficult to resist those temptations in the supermarket, especially if the ... Read More

With rise of obesity in American schoolchildren, concerned parents, school administrators and government and private organizations are stepping up efforts to improve the quality of school lunches by offering healthier, ... Read More

Bisphenol A—an industrial chemical found in many common household plastic products as well as the bloodstreams of most adults and children—has sparked a growing controversy as government agencies, scientists and ... Read More

Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is fond of citing both her energy expertise and her love for the environment, but the longer Palin is on the ... Read More

Here’s some election news that is both encouraging and troubling. The good people of Minnesota are leaning heavily toward passing a constitutional amendment that would authorize a statewide sales-tax increase to ... Read More