The Republican-led budget approved in late May after an all-night debate is a case study in backroom dealing and corporate ...

As farmers close the books on the 1999 season and ponder their future in farming, they know that the price of grain and federal farm policy will be the "make or break" determinants of that future. The ...

AMSTERDAM - The Dutch government said this week it would try to speed development of green energy and repeated it hoped to open the small consumer energy market to competition in 2003. The measures, ...

A White paper written for the Science and Environmental Health Network; The Center for Rural Affairs; and the Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education.

The Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida is crisscrossed with so many illegal swamp-buggy ruts - more than 23,000 miles of them - that park officials in August began limiting off-road vehicles to ...

An alternative to neoliberal trade policies is urgently needed, not Trump's gunboat diplomacy and erratic deals.

The growth in exports seen in the first half of 2003 ""was sustained by a higher output of commodities, fuels and a few manufactured goods of agricultural origin which need little processing"", ...

NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...

Under a damp awning of yellowing bigleaf maples, Judith Starbuck is laying waste to a patch of English ivy. A vine at a time, she rips and tugs at the menace creeping through Madrona Woods. Starbuck ...

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders from the Amazon rain forest want the US government to revoke a patent issued to a US company for a plant used in sacred ceremonies by indigenous people ...