This week, IATP is in Nairobi hosting a two-day workshop (August 5-6) for the East Africa region on the Agreement on ...

MINNEAPOLIS—In response to the Trump administration’s tariff announcement last week, and ahead of the delayed start date on ...

On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its unanimous advisory opinion which asserts that all governments ...

The use of the genetically engineered hormone rBGH not only increases the risk of cancer and other illnesses, but it intensifies the already unhealthy confinement of animals in industrial-scale dairy ...

While problems continue in terms of continued protectionism (especially in agriculture and energy), security concerns in the aftermath of September 11lh, and difficulties in institutionalizing Mexican ...

A federal court has issued a preliminary injunction barring Wisconsin from killing gray wolves, siding with animal welfare and environmental groups that argue the killing violates the Endangered ...

From the New York Times, By Carl Zimmer As trees across the northern United States turn gold and crimson, scientists are debating exactly what those colors are for.

In what should be the first of many such moves, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will bar poultry farmers from using a type of antibiotic that's also important in human medicine. The problem is ...

(Oakland, CA) Industrial shrimp farming in the Third World is destroying mangrove forests, ruining arable soils with salt, damaging estuaries and streams, displacing coastal communities, and ...

Factory farms -- giant livestock farms also known as feedlots that house thousands of cows, chickens or pigs -- produce staggering amounts of animal wastes. As a new NRDC report shows, the way these ...

The Republican budget passed earlier this month took a chainsaw to several foundational pillars that prop up the U.S. food ...

A few years ago, my botanist friends Carol and Steve Mortensen and I took a boat trip out to Bear Island in Leech Lake to look for one of Minnesota's nearly two-dozen rare ferns and fern allies ...