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California bans use of some farming pesticides near schools
FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2001 file photo, a crop dusting plane from Blair Air Service dusts cotton crops in Lemoore, Calif. California regulators have announced a new rule that bans farmers from using...
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UN labor agency shelves decision to end Big Tobacco ties
UN labor agency shelves decision to end Big Tobacco ties November 9, 2017The Associated PressGENEVA (AP) — In an embarrassing retreat, the U.N. labor agency says it has shelved a decision whether to...
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Rural areas at risk as water levels drop in massive aquifer
Rural areas at risk as water levels drop in massive aquifer November 12, 2017The Associated PressDENVER (AP) — The draining of a massive aquifer that underlies portions of eight states in the central...
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Get gooped for the holidays with a Gwyneth Paltrow gift
In this June 10, 2017 photo provided by Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow stands for a photo at the "In goop Health" summit in Culver City, Calif. If your loved ones wouldn't think twice about guzzling organic...
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China's deep ties to Zimbabwe could grow after Mugabe era
FILE - In this file photo taken on Aug. 25, 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shows Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe the way during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in...
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California high court to decide legality of farm worker law
FILE - In this April 29, 2014 file photo, Dan Gerawan, owner of Gerawan Farming, Inc., left, talks with crew boss Jose Cabello in a nectarine orchard near Sanger, Calif. The California Supreme Court is...
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Monsanto moves to stop Arkansas from banning weed killer
Monsanto moves to stop Arkansas from banning weed killer December 5, 2017The Associated PressLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Monsanto asked a judge Tuesday to prevent Arkansas lawmakers from banning the use...
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Bel-Air wildfire joins the siege across Southern California
Flames from the Thomas fire burn above a truck on Highway 101 north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Bel-Air wildfire joins the siege across Southern California...
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The Latest: Surge in California fire brings new evacuations
A volunteer passes supplies donated to Thomas fire evacuees in Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. As many as five fires have closed highways, schools and museums, shut down production of TV...
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Wildfire destroys mobile homes in California retirement park
A helicopter flies over a wildfire Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Bonsall, Calif. The wind-swept blazes have forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California....
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Farmhouse for free, but buyer must move it off owners' land
Farmhouse for free, but buyer must move it off owners' land December 15, 2017The Associated PressELLSTON, Iowa (AP) — Bargain hunters beware! A four-bedroom farmhouse in southern Iowa listed online for...
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Saudi Arabia heralds biggest spending plans yet amid deficit
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2017 file photo photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency, King Salman attends a swearing in ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Salman has delivered an annual speech...
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Rohingya survivors: Myanmar's army slaughtered men, children
In this Friday Nov. 24, 2017, photo, Mohammadul Hassan, 18, is photographed in his family's tent in Jamtoli refugee camp in Bangladesh. Hassan still bears the scars on his chest and back from being...
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Former tobacco barns repurposed for anti-smoking message
Once it stored tobacco, now this 100 year old barn, seen in a Dec. 15, 2017 photo and owned by former tobacco farmer Michael Vaughn, now displays a message for Kentuckians to quit smoking, in Kevil,...
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Tribe will move from shrinking island to farm in Louisiana
A Feb. 14, 2017 photo shows Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana. Louisiana officials have chosen a sugar cane farm as the next home for residents of the tiny, shrinking island. Dozens of Isle de Jean...
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Tax law gives unexpected break to farmers who sell to co-ops
FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2017, file photo, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., heads to a meeting at the Capitol in Washington. Key senators and farm groups are trying to fix a provision in the federal tax...
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AP Exclusive: Rohingya say military cut off food in Myanmar
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, Noor Aysha, a pregnant Rohingya Muslim woman who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her 10-month-old son Anamul Hassan, inside her...
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Farmers trained on using herbicide blamed for crop damage
Farmers trained on using herbicide blamed for crop damage February 12, 2018The Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of soybean and cotton farmers across the country are getting free but...
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Powerful earthquake rattles remote Papua New Guinea
Powerful earthquake rattles remote Papua New Guinea February 25, 2018The Associated PressWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Government officers in Papua New Guinea are traveling to the area hit by a...
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US judge blocks weed-killer warning label in California
FILE--In this Jan. 26, 2017, file p photo, containers of Roundup, left, a weed killer is seen on a shelf with other products for sale at a hardware store in Los Angeles. A federal judge in Sacramento...
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