Forests in northern nations such as Russia and Canada are worth US$250 billion a year because of services they provide by purifying water or soaking up greenhouse gases, a researcher said on Tuesday.

The House passed sweeping toy-safety legislation Wednesday, two years after 4-year-old Jarnell Brown of Minneapolis died from swallowing a heart-shaped charm made almost entirely of lead. The bill, ...

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The U.S. system for handling and transporting grain -- an infrastructure that has evolved over a century -- probably can not handle separating biotech crops from non-biotech crops, said James A. Bair, ...

many parts of the world to better integrate wildlife and biodiversity needs within plantation systems.

Trade talk and tariffs were a theme throughout Donald Trump’s campaign. But no one predicted that just two weeks into his ...

We the undersigned are horrified to learn that the United States delegation in Geneva has specifically rejected incorporating references to other relevant international agreements in the draft ...

This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees. About 375,000 shade trees have been given away to city residents in the past 16 years, and there are plans to plant at least 4 ...

Decision that a claim wherein specific plant varieties are not identified, is not excluded from patentability even if it may embrace plant varieties ...

We explore the relationship between trade adjustment subsidies and successful reciprocal trade liberalization. We consider economies that are faced with a periodic need to move resources out of a ...

Call it the Great Pelican Mystery. Last year, nearly 30,000 white pelicans mysteriously abandoned their nests at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in south-central North Dakota, leaving scientists ...