More in-depth information is readily available through your veterinarian, one of the many rabbit sanctuaries in the United States, rabbit breeders or a library. Doing your homework prior to an impulse bunny purchase at a pet store can help reduce your pet-related headaches and heartaches. It would be fun to suggest that this is a "hare-raising" article but we will be dealing with rabbits, not hares, and you are far too smart to let that difference slip by unnoticed. Rabbits are social...

She helps organize tours that show visitors how Allen raises vegetables in thousands of pots for efficient use of the greenhouse space, and how his self-sustaining system of fish farming raises lake perch and tilapia while circulating the water to feed growing plants. But the key to success, he said, is the compost he makes from waste food and other organic material, with the help of millions of earthworms that digest what otherwise would go to landfills. His center is one example, with...

Theories on what is causing it have ranged from mobile phone radiation to pesticides, from genetically modified crops to climate change. The hives are transported around the country to pollinate important crops, notably to California for almonds. The honeybee decline can be traced back at least 20 years, and the introduction of the parasitic varroa mite is one of the principal causes. Meanwhile, theories connected with mobile phones, climate change and GM crops can probably be discounted,...

Asserting that the country s approval process for GMOs is unconstitutional and "hopelessly flawed," Greenpeace and Searice yesterday filed a petition for injunction seeking to stop the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Department of Agriculture from approving the application of Bayer for its genetically-modified (GMO) rice strain. Asserting that the country s approval process for GMOs is unconstitutional and "hopelessly flawed," Greenpeace and Searice yesterday filed a petition for...

The pro-GM camp, led by the agriculture and science ministers, recently faced strong opposition from anti-GM groups as well as the public health minister. To continue the debate, she urged the government allow field testing so that scientists could gain a better knowledge of the negative consequences of GM crops. A new round in the tug of war over genetically modified (GM) crops appears to have led Thailand nowhere as far as official clearance for field testing of two fruits is concerned....