No less a religious authority than Pope Benedict XVI has stated that human “dominion” over animals does not justify factory farming. While head of the Roman Catholic Church’s Sacred Congregation for ...

They want us to panic – because we should. Zoomers understand better than anyone that the negative environmental effects of human industry are already coming to fruition. After all, they’re ...

WASHINGTON— Indigenous and human-rights groups, conservationists, scientists, doctors and public-health experts petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today to hold a formal hearing ...

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

Exposure to ammonia and hydrogen sulfide released from the highly concentrated animal waste produced by factory farms can cause many human health problems, including respiratory diseases, nasal and ...

Fifteen development banks and a fund tasked with supporting sustainable economic growth are investing billions of dollars to ...