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After years of polluting and contaminating the environment, the American Smelting and Refining Company's notorious copper-smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, will be cleaned up this year. Asarco will also pay $1.79 billion to settle claims for pollution at more than 80 sites throughout the country.

How is our food and agriculture system contributing to global warming? What kind of changes need to be made in our food system to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions? We discuss the importance of sustainable food systems.

When the modern, chemical-reliant system of farming — the so-called Green Revolution of the 1960s and '70s — swept across India's Punjab region, farmers abandoned traditional methods for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and high-yield seeds. Now, an increasing number of Indian farmers are switching to organic methods.

Iraqi forces are taking a leading role in the country, and U.S. troops could be gone by 2011 if conditions continue to improve. But not all Iraqi troops believe the country's forces are ready to operate independently.

All four members of the U.S. Table Tennis team are Chinese. One of the players spends 11 months of the year practicing in China because she says pingpong in the U.S. "is really no good."

The Pentagon reports that violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since February 2007, when President Bush ordered the deployment of an additional 30,000 soldiers. Despite periods of insurgent violence, the military has said that overall, the troop increase — or "surge" — has been a success.

A group of Tijuana grandmothers has written a prayer for peace. They're asking people on both sides of the border to say it together Friday evening to help restore tranquility in Tijuana. KPBS reporte

French Muslim women are in the forefront of grassroots political activism. Some say it's not religion but social and economic discrimination that threatens this society's cohesion.

A storm that brought freezing rain and snow to the plains states and Midwest over the weekend has moved into the Northeast, leaving at least 19 people dead in weather-related accidents.

At least 41 people were killed and 150 wounded in the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Wednesday, months after Iraqis took control of security operations from the British military. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who was visiting Basra on Tuesday, said the attack was an attempt to undermine efforts to stabilize the country.