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Take action and ask your Congress members to reject fast tracking the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement, which includes a “Monsanto Protection Provision” in Section 2 requiring negotiators to eliminate "barriers” in markets such as the labeling of genetically engineered food.

A new study has shed light on how cancer patients’ attitudes and beliefs drive the use of complementary and alternative medicine.

The “Don’t Frack Denver” campaign draws renowned nature photographer John Fielder to help keep fracking out of the Mile High City...

The global transition to clean, renewable energy and away from nuclear and fossils is well under way, with remarkable developments happening every day. Here are seven that may surprise you.

  A Century of Women Working for Peace by Amy Goodman One hundred years ago, more than 1,000 women gathered in The Hague during World War I, demanding peace. Now, a century later, in these very violent times, nearly 1,000…

Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?

Imagine donating money to charity only to discover that the group ended up with just a few pennies of every dollar you gave or that it even lost money.

A nationwide survey of U.S. beekeepers released on Wednesday found that the pollinators have been hit by another massive population drop, with 42 percent of bee colonies nationwide dying in the last year—the second-largest annual recorded loss to date and a number that is too high to be sustainable, according to researchers.

Are you currently suffering from addiction? Whether you’re battling an addiction to alcohol, drugs or sex, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

If temperatures around the globe continue to rise in the face of human-induced climate change as climatologists expect, some of the world’s most populous areas could become uninhabitable.

Kshama Sawant, a native of India, became the first socialist elected to citywide office in Seattle in decades when she toppled a four-term incumbent in 2013...

A few months ago, fourth-grader Joey Furlong was lying in a hospital bed, undergoing a pre-brain surgery screening, when a teacher walked in the room with a standardized test.

The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorial by the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?” The write-up quickly made the social media rounds, prompting both panic and the usual blame game...

After witnessing the effects that late stage Lyme disease had on my Mom, my husband, Ken and I saw the need to start a support group in Worcester.

Unlike the Great Wall of China, a 5,000-mile fortification dating back to the 7th century BC that separates northern China from the Mongolian steppe, the Great Green Wall of China—otherwise known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program—is the biggest tree planting project on the planet.

Part 2 of a three-part series... So why did it take my Mom so long to get the proper diagnosis of Lyme disease? For years she had been experiencing many symptoms and yet not one doctor even considered it to be Lyme.

My mother – the wonderful woman who adopted me despite already having four biological children of her own – was a bright, educated, and deeply thoughtful person.

One of the most effective ways to reduce the health and environmental risks from pesticides is to replace them with non-chemical methods.

For the past 13 years, the Holistic Life Foundation has focused on bringing mindfulness meditation and self-regulation techniques to their headquarters in Baltimore and beyond.

Since the dawn of our great nation, there’s one thing United States citizens can count on: seeing white guys everywhere...

Do you ever wonder why so much organic food also carries animal welfare labels?

The U.S. Supreme Court's arguments on Tuesday over same-sex marriage will cap more than two decades of litigation and a transformation in public attitudes.