Growth has long been Detroit's mantra, but now the industry is surviving by thinking small. I'm writing this from Germany, where gasoline costs $7 or $8 a gallon (you thought $4 was high!) and a Jetta is a big car. More typical of what's going on in Berlin these days is the launch of a fleet of 1,000 Car2Go Smart share cars - the largest concentration in the world.
Organic farming is gaining a nice foothold in America and is doing OK businesswise, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey.
SUNSET VALLEY, Texas The bees were hungry.
Summer farmers markets and fruit stands are opening up around the country this month. Here are some tips on how to navigate markets and ensure the produce you are buying is in fact local.
Wouldn't it be better if spring cleaning actually smelled fresh? Instead, the stench of noxious fumes from hard-core bleach- and ammonia-laden products cloud our homes. The smell of nature is much less likely to give you a headache.
Dear EarthTalk: Why is Greenpeace upset with some leading tech companies for "dirty cloud computing"?
Like many ranchers, Bill Jensen drives a pickup, shoots a high-powered rifle and loves to talk about sheep, cattle and the outdoors. But unlike many ranchers, he no longer relies on the federal government for predator control.
SACRAMENTO, Calif SACRAMENTO, Calif. - State officials on Friday announced that an ambitious and controversial plan to restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will be delayed.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration proposed updated rules for oil and gas development on federal lands - an effort to catch up with the boom in use of the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing - but struck a compromise that failed to satisfy industry and most environmentalists.
WASHINGTON The Interior Department issued a long-awaited update to rules for oil and gas development on federal lands, striking a middle ground on regulation of the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing that disappointed industry and some environmentalists.
It's a little tree with big personality - fringe tree, or Chionanthus virginicus.
Your days of enjoying spring days grilling or chillin' in the backyard may be numbered.
Herb spirals aren't just another pretty space.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Go on, big guy, enjoy your adopted home, the murky canals of Broward and Palm Beach counties. Here you can grow up to 3 feet long, lay eggs by the thousands, and dine on savory bass babies.
The federal government's wildlife damage control program is based on outdated science and indiscriminate tools that kill many non-target animals, including protected species, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by WildEarth Guardians, a Colorado-based environmental group.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. The 15th anniversary of the Flood of 1997 wasn't on my radar screen until the Grand Forks Herald starting running "15 years ago today" updates in the days leading up to the event.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Chipps Island is packed with stories. The 1,000-acre tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has been the stage for a variety of human scheming and struggling.
Like the prow of a ship, the Granite Mountains rise sharply from the creamy-white playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Here, in rugged terrain owned by the American public, a little-known federal agency called Wildlife Services has waged an eight-year war against predators to try to help an iconic Western big-game species: mule deer.
The resignation Monday of Al Armendariz, the controversial regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency, was cheered by many Texas officials and bemoaned by environmental activists, leaving it unclear how his departure may affect regulatory enforcement of gas drilling operations.
The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes. Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a ravine in Nevada and found something he hadn't intended to kill. Strader's employer, a branch of the federal Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services, has long specialized in killing animals that are deemed a threat to agriculture, the public and – more recently – the environment.
A memo shows Dow Chemical knew that TCP was useless as a fumigant for agriculture, but used it anyway as a way to get rid of it.
In Cuba’s North Basin, the Spanish company Repsol has begun risky exploration for oil and natural gas on a semi-submersible rig, now just 77 nautical miles from Key West and even closer to the ecologically sensitive Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In a month or so, Repsol expects its drilling through 5,600 feet of seawater and about 14,000 feet of layered rock will reach the reservoir.
Bert Garrido, a Florida transplant who bought a $400,000 home last year in upper Chatham County, is already having neighbor tensions in his newly adopted state. His concerns are of the sort that have never been experienced in North Carolina, and dovetail with this state’s contentious debate about fracking.
An estimated 445,000 deer live in California, or about equal to the city of Sacramento's human population. Which sounds like a lot, until you realize the deer are spread over the entire state: 99 million acres.
Fishing in a canal outside Homestead Bayfront Park not long ago, Ed Castleberry fought hard to catch the biggest jack he’d ever hooked. But something else also wanted his 15-pound trophy, something lurking beneath the murky surface. As the retired Miami-Dade firefighter reached down to land the fish, a dark shadow passed under it, instantly followed by an explosion of water and the scream of his reel as line zinged out.
Golf giving you heartburn? It could be a lot worse. A snake in Beaufort, S.C., swallowed a golf ball whole this week and was sliding toward a sure and agonizing death, a Titleist wedged tightly in its gut.
The tiny Miami blue butterfly, reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, will be formally declared a federally endangered species on Friday.
Apple is building the nation's biggest non-utility fuel cell facility in North Carolina, near one of its data centers.
Many dolphin deaths have been reported in the Gulf of Mexico this year. NOAA is putting details on a public website.
Florida wildlife managers, in a move that would be a first nationally, are poised to outlaw killing tiger sharks and three kinds of hammerheads that prowl state waters — but in increasingly fewer numbers.
