NEW YORK (Fortune) -- When you hear the words "green business," what company comes to mind? Patagonia, maybe? Whole Foods Market (Charts, Fortune 500)? Starbucks (Charts, Fortune 500), or Group Danone ...

The end of the fishing frenzy in San Felipe was blamed on a marine mammal called the vaquita porpoise. Scientists say it’s one of the world’s smallest marine mammals -- as well as the rarest.

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

A college professor's two-and-a-half year project has brought the cutting edge of police work out of the shadows. Since 2011, Silicon Valley-based software firm Palantir has helped the Los Angeles ...

Mark Zuckerberg has regrets. "I'm really sorry that this happened," the Facebook CEO told CNN's Laurie Segall in an exclusive TV interview on Wednesday.

Prosecutors in Germany have imposed a $1.2 billion fine on Volkswagen for rigging diesel engine emissions worldwide. The €1 billion ($1.2 billion) penalty was announced Wednesday by public ...

This chart was compiled using data from more than 15,000 oil fields across 20 nations. The production costs were calculated by including a mix of capital expenditures and operational expenditures.

Eyebrows were raised after a court filing Tuesday revealed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, now under federal indictment, has three U.S. passports. Here's what we have learned.

When people think of Monaco, wealth, fast cars and casinos come to mind. But few think about how this tiny city-state became a mecca for the rich. The mini country on France's sun-kissed ...

The stock market should have carried a warning in 2016: Steep drops and sudden acceleration may cause whiplash. From crashing oil prices that fueled Wall Street's worst-ever start to a year, to ...