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In a new book, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his son and grandson discuss how to feed a growing planet. "We've been fortunate to make a whole lot more money than anybody can spend intelligently on themselves, so the object is to spend it intelligently on the rest of the world," says the senior Buffett.

Farmers in Senegal are welcoming fish into their rice paddies. The hope is they'll fertilize the crop, be a source of food ... and eat the snails that carry parasitic worms.

With cheerleaders and pompoms, the government is urging people to knock out Ebola by mid-March.

Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.

The U.S. military's new, expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces began in Germany on Sunday. Until now the Pentagon had declined to say exactly when the training would start.

A new single-pill treatment for HIV has shown promising results. This is particularly useful for people who have had HIV for decades.

State Rep. Dan Daley, D-Coral Springs, has filed a bill aimed at increasing the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the state, similar to a…

Seismic airgun testing by the oil industry has received approval by the Obama Administration and should commence this year, followed by potential drilling…

“If all the ice melts — and that’ll happening if we keep doing what we’re doing — the oceans come up 75 meters. That’s about 250 feet,” Dennis Bushnell,…

NPR's Alan Cheuse reviews the novel, The New World, by Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz.