A key focus of this week's Transformational Media Summit is how sharing stories can change attitudes to help us create a more peaceful world.

Consumers who need guidance about all the seals and certifications on food packaging can find some answers in this food label guide.

Part II: Consumers who need guidance deciphering all the seals, certifications and claims on food packaging can find answers in MNN's Food Label Guide.

There's more to carrots than vitamin A. These carrot nutrition facts that make it a welcome addition to most anyone’s diet.

“Eat Pretty” has simple nutrition information to transform your beauty routine – inside and out.

Researchers add color-coded traffic symbols along with calorie counts to a menu to see how they influence people's choices.

Each day, the average American throws away enough food to keep another person from going hungry.

Pea protein is showing up in unexpected places, and it offers an easy way to get your protein through plants while sidestepping any allergies you might have.

Michigan woman has a 'photo booth' to get a glimpse of the personalities of birds that visit her yard.

Annual Koch Institute exhibition explores the thought-provoking and stunning visuals behind life sciences and biomedical research at MIT.

Artist Dale Chihuly's whimsical glass art pops up in botanical gardens and museums all around the world.

The winners in this international dog photo contest range from a blind, senior dog to cute, matching puppies.

A BBC videographer learns what an Arctic seal's final moments might look like.

The people of Churchill, Manitoba, live among polar bears — some of the world's most dangerous predators — for several months each year.

Explore.org has affixed several high-definition cameras to locations in Churchill, Manitoba, the 'Polar Bear Capital of the World.'

Polar-bear dens, where mama bears raise young cubs during the harsh Alaska winters, could be identified using laser technology.

The new season of Smithsonian Channel's 'Polar Bear Town' will explore the intersection of humans and the 'Lords of the Arctic' in Manitoba.

Video: How these roly-poly, spineless worms are serving as role models for soft material robots.

The insect's DNA helps piece together our evolutionary history.

Video: Could working the night shift alter a woman's body clock enough to cause breast cancer?

Video: Robots help surgeons transcend human limits.

Video: Learn about the bobtail squid and its interesting relationship with beneficial bacteria.

Looking to the ground before taking to the air–-what ground birds can teach us about flight.

How smart are copy cats? Maybe it depends on your species

These robotic labs, called ESPs, collect water samples in the open water and can determine if a beach is safe for swimming or water is clean enough to drink

Video: How climate change is impacting freshwater and saltwater marshes.

Video: Aerial surveillance cameras in some stores track our shopping behavior and help retailers determine what to sell and how to position it.

Team of scientists and engineers head to the heart of earthquake country to learn more about predicting when and where an earthquake will happen — before the

Non-native earthworms are damaging hardwood forests; one University of Minnesota group is working to clear up the misconception that they're always harmless.

Hungry purple marsh crabs threaten Cape Cod salt marshes by eating crucial cordgrass.

Minnesota educator develops multimedia tools to share and preserve Ojibwe language and culture.

Will Obama’s green cabinet give birth to the next spotted owl?

A freshwater lake the size of the state of West Virginia has practically disappeared. The lessons that the Aral Sea may hold for U.S. waterways.

History has been made. Today is for the hangover, and then the hard work. Six distinguished environmentalists weigh in.

Obama steals a play from the Reagan/Bush playbook, and hopes for the opposite result.

What’s been called the largest wetlands restoration in the Western U.S. was halted in December. California is projecting up to a $42 billion budget shortfall

Sometimes, the big guns in Congress aim to keep stuff 'away' from their states. Senator Harry Reid and the tale of Yucca Mountain is a prime example.

An MNN column causes an uproar in the scientific and not-so-scientific community. Our columnist responds.

OK, I admit. Maybe there's no such thing as climate change. Maybe it's all a hoax. Maybe.

Humanity is often at its worst and wackiest in our search for water. Peter Dykstra on a free-flowing font of bad ideas.

Step right up and watch how the government is misspending your tax dollars on the environment.

Being eco-minded on Earth Day is like being merry on Christmas. It's to be expected. But here are seven things you can actually do to wake you from your eco-slu

You'll never guess who's fighting to stop the construction of a wind farm off the shores of Cape Cod. Environmentalists.

"Enron could've saved us" and four other environmental predictions that didn't come true.

Garbage science isn't rocket science. Each of us throws away a ton of stuff every year. Literally. The problem, and why it's only getting worse.

Obama is an agent of change. Or at least he's supposed to be. Peter Dykstra grades six areas of the Obama presidency.

"Vertical Churches" give viewers a head-turning look at some of the most beautiful architecture in the world.

Nat Geo's telling of Christ's life focuses on his plight as a human being living in such a tumultuous time.

How have Easter's ancient paganist roots manifested in this modern Christian celebration?

The new policy at Dignity Health Mercy Medical Center in Merced builds trust and community, and the patients are seeing the results.