Several environmental organizations join forces to launch a new campaign urging the federal government to adopt a fuel efficiency goal of 60mpg by 2025.

A new proposal would expand offshore drilling in U.S. waters, but it's drawing fire from supporters as well as critics of the oil and gas industry.

Kermit pops into ‘Saturday Night Live’ to discuss the school lunch standards.

The fast-food company denies that pressure from chef Jamie Oliver had anything to do with its decision.

Sensational headlines and varying reports about a North Carolina school lunch incident would have us think so.

Exotic beetles are killing America's ash trees, a popular source of wood for baseball bats. And as these verdant invaders spread into the Northeast, their grow

The winner of the Apps for Healthy Kids contest sponsored by Let’s Move allows kids build a healthy meal from ingredients online, and they can send those meal

Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will answer questions about Know Your Farmer Know Your Food and other local foods questions.

Looks like the USDA forgot its 'A' stands for all agriculture and not just beef this week, and Monsanto might have more power than the federal court system. It'

In a recently released video, the first lady talks up the healthy new choices that kids will see in their school lunches this year

The USDA wants to set nutritional standards for snacks sold in vending machines, "a la carte" lunch lines and school stores.

In the second Healthy Lunchtime Challenge kids enter their best original lunch recipes for a chance to attend the Kids’ State Dinner.

A new report ranks meat and poultry based on outbreaks of foodborne illness.

What good can an additional serving of fruit or vegetables a day do?

New dietary guidelines put a limit on added sugar, and changed their tune on dietary cholesterol. Good news for egg lovers.

The new USDA label for "bioengineered food" doesn't answer basic questions that some shoppers will have about genetically modified foods.

The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 1

As the Arctic warms, meltwater lakes on the Greenland ice sheet are draining to sea more frequently — potentially lubricating the slide of the ice sheet into

With a focus on solar, schools and citizen entrepreneurs, Global Green USA formally announces its plan to help devastated-by-Sandy communities in New York and N

A new report from Climate Central finds that most of the overflow was caused by coastal flooding, which was made worse by rising sea levels.

A new study shows that coral reef-building is more complex than Darwin thought.

Could the plight of one Kiribati family foreshadow a future inundated with climate-change castaways?

A new study shows that 20 percent of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are at risk, bringing to light the cultural implications of climate change.

Arctic sea ice — the ice that freezes and floats on Arctic waters — is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought.

Climate Chronograph is a memorial that sinks as sea levels rise.

Increased sea ice drift forces polar bears to expend more energy walking on a fast-moving 'treadmill' of sea ice.

Not only can coral reefs buffer humans from disasters, but protecting them is 15 times cheaper than building sea walls.

According to World Bank data, many countries are losing a sizable percentage of land mass due to various factors, including sea level rise and severe weather.

Stone Age villages on the Orkney Islands are older than Stonehenge, but archaeologists fear that they won't be around for much longer.

Actress and animal advocate Natalie Portman adjusts her vegetarian diet due to 'dairy cravings.' Portman, who recently won a Best Actress Oscar for 'Black Swan,

You know those baby registry lists you get in the mail when someone slips those retailers the news that you’re expecting? You’ll find everything from Exersa

Actress names new addition Bear Blu Jarecki. Alicia Silverstone has become the latest mother in the current Hollywood baby boom, giving birth to a baby boy on M

Actress says that her heart has tripled in size. The great green Hollywood baby boom of 2011 has come to an end — with celebrities like Natalie Portman, Alici

I just had my 36-week checkup at the gynecologist and they told me that my baby is breech, meaning that if it doesn’t go head-down soon, I’m going to have t

My newborn child won’t stop crying My sister-in-law says he could have colic. I don’t even know what that means but it sounds serious. Got any natural remed

Work will be a how-to handbook based on her mission of 'creating a natural, authentic, and nontoxic life' for her family.

Actress comes under fire after she reveals that she chews her toddler's food before feeding it to him.

Pro-breast-feeding agenda turns NYC hospitals into a "nanny" state. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the Latch On NYC initiative to support mother

What you need to know to choose the best infant formula for your baby.

Actress and healthy living author is sourcing stories from other mothers for her new book "The Kind Mama."

Buckingham Palace finally puts the pregnancy rumors to rest by officially announcing that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting.

Silverstone hopes to connect vegan moms who have extra breastmilk to share with others in need.

A photographer, a body painter, and a pregnant woman team up to show what it looks like inside the womb.

In the biggest city in America's smallest state, comes a micro-apartment complex that aims to revive a struggling 19th-century indoor shopping center.

Follow architecture grad Hank Butitta as he traverses the country in one heck of a Craigslist find: A $3,000 school bus transformed into a mobile tiny home.

Instead of filling a storage space attached to their carport with junk, Craige and Jennifer Walters transformed it into a lovely tiny house for guests.

Explaining this his car 'doesn't need its own little home,' a homeowner converts his garage into a cottage and rents out his main house.

Indie retail and urban downsizing collide at this smart example of adaptive reuse that breathes new life into a historic shopping center.

Photographer Blake Burton chronicles the extensive work of restoring a historic Sears, Roebuck & Co. building.

Is Denver's B-Cycle program nothing but a form of U.N. control of the city? The Mayoral Republican gubernatorial frontrunner thinks so.