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On one side of the gravel road are hundreds of acres of corn. On the other is a different crop that scientists hope will enable farmers to rebuild sinking islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, combat global warming and make a profit at the same time.

The U.S. Geological Survey is growing tules and cattails on about 15 acres on Twitchell Island, about 5.7 square miles of rich but fragile peat soil 30 miles south of Sacramento.

Twitchell and other delta islands are slowing sinking, their soil eaten away by wind, rain and farming. Most are more than 20 feet below the surrounding water. A levee system keeps them from being flooded.

Stocks rebounded Friday from a sell-off a day earlier as a sharp drop in oil prices eased worries over a quarterly loss from mortgage finance company Fannie Mae that was more than triple what Wall Street ...

The number of UK house repossessions jumped by 48 per cent in the first half of the year to its highest level for 10 years, figures showed today.

If I asked you to locate your hibiscus or your hydrangea, where would you look? No, you won't find them in the fridge, and they're not parts of the anatomy.

Rates on 30-year mortgages didn't budge this week, while rates on other home loans were mixed.

Consumers - fortified by the government's rebate checks - boosted their borrowing in June at the fastest pace in seven months.

A visitor takes a picture of the world's largest flower, the Titan Arum at... A visitor takes a picture of the world's largest flower, the Titan Arum at the National Botanic Garden in Meise, near Brussels, ...

The decision by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee is likely to have been one of the toughest in recent times, with members having to balance deeper economic gloom with expectations of rising ...

Barclays Bank has taken a 2.8bn writedown hit as its profits fell 34% for the first half of the year.

Neighbours rushed to the woman's aid, armed with whatever objects they could muster and with little regard for their own safety when the bear attacked her as she was gardening near her Westwood Plateau driveway ...

HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut sued Countrywide Financial Corp. on Wednesday, becoming the latest state to take the mortgage lender to court over its lending practices.

Authorities say a Montgomery man apparently was growing more than tomatoes in his garden.

Freddie Mac on Wednesday posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss, set plans to slash its common stock dividend and warned of more difficulty ahead amid the steepest U.S. housing market slump since the ...

Federal prosecutors say two D.C. employees pleaded guilty to making false statements to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Treasury Department says it has awarded a contract to investment firm Morgan Stanley to help the government assess the risks facing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Housing repossessions rose by more than 40 per cent in the first three months of the year as the number of people in arrears on their mortgage payment soared to over 300,000. The Financial Services Authority , ...

The Federal Reserve, confronted with the perils of a slumping economy and rising inflation, has decided for a second straight meeting to leave interest rates unchanged.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing Tuesday 5th August 2008 - 2:14pm Stamp duty suspension 'would not turn around' UK housing market Suspending stamp duty would not turn the housing market round and ...

U.S. mortgage market giant Freddie Mac's chief executive dismissed internal warnings that could have protected the company from some of the financial problems now engulfing it, the New York Times said, citing ...

Police are looking for three men who bound a man and his child in the dining room of their home and ransacked it.