Through her book Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, Atina Diffley takes us through her life of conquering odds; from an abusive marriage to battling uphill as an organic farmer long before it was in fashion.

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear.

A newly published collection of more than 20 studies provides mounting evidence that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat.

The Karton Group in Australia has a new take on cardboard packaging. Instead of shipping furniture in cardboard, their furniture IS the cardboard.

Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.

The late "Elephant whisperer" Lawrence Anthony was a hero to animals in his native Africa and around the world. He became famous for easily handling elephants others considered to be killers.

The vast amount of glass in skyscrapers and office buildings represents enormous potential for an emerging technology that turns windows into solar panels. 

Leaked letters and emails suggest Maryland’s governor is allied to industrial chicken corporations—helping that industry thwart efforts by regulators to get them to clean up their acts.

Vermont is about to become the first U.S. state to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.The Vermont House of Representatives voted 103-36 to approve a conference committee report calling for the ban.