Two young American businessmen have developed a green alternative to ubiquitous polystyrene packaging -- made from farm waste and mushrooms -- that uses 10 times less energy to produce, and biodegrades into a natural fertilizer. Called EcoCradle, th
BILLINGS, Mont. - A Minnesota company has partnered with a Montana developer to pursue more than 500 megawatts of community-owned wind power in central Montana. National Wind of Minneapolis and Montana Wind Resources of Billings said Monday the proj
ENID, Oklahoma (Reuters) - To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical
Stricter licensing for dog breeding in Wales could be introduced in an effort to regulate puppy farming.Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones is announcing a review of the law in a speech later after new evidence of unlicensed premises was uncovered. Th
LONDON - British energy company Globeleq said Monday it was withdrawing from a giant wind farm project in northern Kenya after failing to reach agreement on buying a controlling stake. Globeleq failed to reach common ground regarding the developme
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University has entered into a 15-year agreement to buy power and renewable energy certificates from a wind energy farm to be built in Maine. Harvard officials announced Monday that Stetson Wind II facility near Danforth, M
MEXICO CITY - A Mexican farmworkers leader and 14 people who were apparently his relatives and employees are dead in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora. Sonora prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga says the victims include farm l
NAPLES, Italy - Italian police on Saturday arrested one of the country's most wanted mafia fugitives after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm where he had built a hideout, authorities said. Salvatore Russo, the 51-year-old head of
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