It's a holiday specific example of cause and effect, but a kind that's sure to become more common in the coming months. Interest in ethanol has grown and corn prices have consequently risen, so farmers are paying more to feed their egg-laying hens. As extra costs get shifted to consumers, the price of eggs is also rising. Ok, so pricier Easter ...

The theme for this year’s UN World Water Day is “Coping with Water Scarcity”, so it’s fitting a report released only days ahead by WWF finds some of the world’s largest and most well-know rivers could dry up due to climate change, pollution and bad planning -- even ones in our own backyard. U.S. river threatenedWorld Wildlife Fund released ...

Melbourne Australia has been sitting at level 3 water restrictions since January, which means a lot of rules about what residents can use their water for. A severe drought has been causing shortages, and may lead to what Victoria’s Water Minister John Thwaites says would be unprecedented water shortages by the end of the year. An opposition leader ...

You know the story. You go to the local grocery store and head into the produce aisle to pick up a few things. An hour later you're still standing in front of the apple display trying to decide whether it's more important to buy organic food that has traveled a long way to reach the store, or local food that was produced conventionally, pesticides ...

In a $565 million deal Whole Foods Market has bought leading organic food retailer Wild Oats Marketplace. The 110 Wild Oats stores will be added to an almost 200 existing Whole Foods locations. For the companies, which have “similar missions and core values” a merger will mean increased strength for the strictly organic supermarket business.Both ...

A government-funded report out of the UK questions whether organic foods are actually less harmful than their intensively-farmed counterparts. While it does question whether “all organic” is better than “all conventional”, it’d be a bit misleading to say they’ve questioned the benefit of every organic product. Unfortunately that assumption could ...