Fla. Battles Yet Another Invasive Species at Annual Air Potato Roundup
Courtesy Carrie Guss
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- "Potatoes" and "devastating infestation" might not sound like they go hand in hand. But in Florida, they can be so dangerous that a thousand people take to the forest to root...
Help Save the Planet: Eat Some Carp
M. Spencer Green, AP
Japanese knotweed is one of the 100 worst invasive species by the World Conservation Union. It grows fast, spreads far, and takes monumental effort to kill. It's reviled throughout much of the...
Wal-Mart Pledges to Put Healthier Food in Grocery Aisles
AP
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer and grocery, announced today that it is continuing its push toward healthier food with a five-year program to reduce sodium, fat and sugar content in the...
From Houses on Sticks to Cabins on Wheels: The Wide World of Tiny Living
AP
Forget walk-in closets, indoor pools and multiple dens. In the world of the great recession, it's the little things that are making the biggest splash in the housing market. Tiny housing is going...
Women Entrepreneurs in Baghdad Making Their Own Light
Prosperity Candle
Wafa'a makes candles. A widow with four sons living in Baghdad, Iraq, her husband was killed when a mortar dropped into her store years ago. But despite being a woman living in one of the most...
Will London Serve Only Sustainable Fish With Its Chips?
AP
When the 2012 Olympic Games come to London, the city is going to be serving a lot of fish and chips. And one organization has challenged the city to get every last serving of it from sustainable...
Microsoft's Avatar Kinect: How Close Will Encounters Get?
Robyn BeckR, AFP / Getty Images
Chat rooms are getting a little more real. With the new "Avatar Kinect," Microsoft says it will be able to use its camera to scan in a user's body and then put it in a virtual room with other...
Alireza Pahlavi: The Lonely Life of an Exiled Prince
Lionel Cironneau, AP
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Alireza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late shah of Iran, had lived in exile since he was 13. Captivating, glamorous and tragic, he and his family are the Kennedys of Iran....
Orange Gator Discovered in Florida, But Is It a Dye Job?
Sylvia Mythen, AP
College football fans know the Florida Gators are orange and blue, but that, of course, is just a uniform. In the wild, Florida alligators are a grayish black on top, with a lighter-colored belly....
Clowns Without Borders Brings the Best Medicine to Stricken Areas
Courtesy Clowns Without Borders
As an aid worker, Tim Cunningham has been around: South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mexico, Brazil, Haiti. But when he went to those places, he didn't set broken legs, repair buildings or win...
May 21 Is Judgment Day? Harold Camping's Latest Doomsday Prediction
If the "biblical" scale flooding in Australia and the mass die-off of fish, birds and bees weren't proof enough, a growing chorus of doomsayers say that they have proof that the end of days is...
Google Justice: From Violence in Sudan to Drug Busts in Wisconsin
Search giant Google has already revolutionized the the way the world looks for stuff online, but now George Clooney and the United Nations are hoping it may be able to help curb genocide. The...
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