"There is a growing consensus that we as a nation need to recreate our communities and environments where healthy choices are easy choices and affordable choices. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack -- who has talked about his own childhood struggles with weight -- agrees about the need.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

"There is a growing consensus that we as a nation need to recreate our communities and environments where healthy choices are easy choices and affordable choices."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

The project will help people understand the many threats to the natural environments where endangered plants and animals live.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Far below sea level, they contain some of the harshest environments on Earth, with no oxygen and no light.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Darwin's observations showed him that environments can change a little very quickly and a great deal over time.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Scientists know that plants and animals often change to be able to live in extreme environments.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

And the team says changes in time spent in light or dark environments influences eating habits.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

JILL MIKUCKI: "We have a lot to learn from the microbes that survive in these kinds of environments and have adapted to these cold, low-energy systems.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He studies environments in which bees and other pollinating insects are threatened.

VOA: special.2011.05.25

It also has a river, forests and other environments.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The insects can survive in new and different environments.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The architectural photographer says Machu Picchu is an example of how human and natural environments can exist in a well-designed and visually cohesive whole.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"Exposure to tobacco smoke is a risk factor for cardiac disease already in adolescents, and that's why this study supports that children and adolescents need smoke-free environments."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

New research has found that mice with cancer are better able to fight off the disease when they are in complex, stimulating environments, with lots of toys and other mice that they interact - and compete - with.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14