As the global economic crisis has made all too clear, there is one choke point for almost any business: its source of financing. Rainforest Action Network activists were thinking about that this ...

Native American and First Nations leaders also made headlines last week by coming out strongly against tar-sands pipelines. From the Global Post: Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our ...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The ACC had only been in existence for three years when players from the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest got into their first spirited brawl, but that 1956 incident ...

LONDON (Reuters) - For Rivka Micklewaite and fellow students, securing a pledge this week from Oxford University to avoid direct investments in companies producing coal or tar sands is just the ...

NEW YORK - Isaiah Hicks had 19 points and No. 6 North Carolina certainly looked like a national championship contender in its postseason debut, beating Miami 78-53 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of ...

Davey Johnson says Maddon should "read the rulebook." Maddon says the rulebook shouldn't always rule in the "self-policing" world of major league baseball — and that if anyone was cheating, it was ...