The AAP clarified their child car seat guidelines to make them easier for parents to follow.

The holidays have plenty of hustle and bustle, and it can overwhelm children on the autism spectrum. Sensitive Santas can help bring seasonal joy.

'The Orchid and the Dandelion' by W. Thomas Boyce is part memoir and part child development theory about how kids react to circumstances, and how to help them.

Scientists can only guess at how they have avoided extinction for so long.

Research suggests that long-distance relationships encourage more communication and that couples try harder.

Though the study's assumption of what "better" sex means is pretty specific.

Eco-publisher giving away copies of Riki Ott's book on the Exxon Valdez spill, <i>Not One Drop</i>, in exchange for donations to help in the Gulf coast relief e

The makers of eco-docu 'FUEL' wants you to attend two big events to help end America's addiction to fossil fuels.

Greenpeace ship blocked en route to protesting new oil find off the coast of Greenland.

A federal official and a police officer told a local Florida news reporter that digging in the sand wasn't allowed without a permit.

The Republican presidential candidate from Minnesota thinks she has the magic touch for lowering prices at the pump.

Shell's futurists spin scenarios of a worldwide turn to electric vehicles and hydrogen power.

Amid an uproar from some conservatives, the Obama administration will delay an industry-funded effort to promote real Christmas trees over plastic replicas.

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

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

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

The Non-GMO Project received USDA approval to label meat from animals fed a diet that didn’t contain genetically modified ingredients as Non-GMO.

This unknown American hero led the development of one of the most significant technological innovations of the 20th century.

Foods that are healthy also tend to be sustainable. Should the USDA guidelines reflect that?

Don’t know the difference between cage-free and free-range, natural and organic? This will help.

In its Week in Review video, a USDA rep says it’s OK to eat that dry pasta several months past its sell-by date.

A request for a USDA Process Verified label for its non-GMO product has raised questions. Here are some answers.

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

On the heels of the government's dietary guidelines, Environmental Working Group releases its own version, free from food industry interference.

The USDA is asking makers of meat, dairy and egg products to stop using "sell by" and "use by" dates and adopt a universal "best if used by" label.

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

U.S. Cattlemen's Association has filed a petition to USDA arguing that lab-grown and plant-based meat startups shouldn't be able to call their products meat.

USDA releases final rules for GMOs in our food, but they call them bioengineered foods instead. Here's what you need to know.

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

It may take less of an increase in global temperatures to melt the ice sheet covering Greenland than thought, new research suggests.

As the old ice of Earth melts, photographers have captured its decline. Here are eight stunning before-and-after images detailing ice melts across our planet.

On Aug. 8, the Greenland ice sheet shattered a seasonal record, with more cumulative melting since record-keeping began more than three decades ago, new researc

This summer the North Carolina Senate passed a bill banning researchers from reporting predicted increases in the rate of sea level rise. But the ocean, unbound

Scientists say the consequences of sea-level rise could be 'horrible.'

The world's best beach resorts may disappear despite efforts to protect them against sea level rise

Sharp reductions in short-lived airborne pollutants could significantly slow sea level rise before 2100

If a small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean.

Antarctica's melting glaciers launched so many icebergs into the ocean 14,600 years ago that sea level rose 6.5 feet in just 100 years.

Longer days are yet another profound consequence of global warming.

These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years.

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

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows how many coastal cities are vulnerable to chronic flooding — and how many will be underwater.

We know sea levels will rise, and by just looking at the Southeast region, it's easier to see how sea level rise will affect wildlife and culture.

Vegan actress and celebrated animal activist says she's expecting later this year.

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

Misinformation and 'vaccine fears' are causing parents to forgo a safe solution to a dangerous newborn vitamin deficiency.

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

Eco-architect-turned-full-time vintage aluminum trailer renovator Matthew Hofmann reveals an Airstream hotel in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara.

Following a gut rehab, an L.A. homeowner is selling the place where Freddy Krueger met his match for the first, but certainly not the last, time.