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A firetruck drives along a closed Interstate 80 as flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fire continue to spread in California on August 19, 2020.

‘Is This Real Life?’ A Wall of Fire Robs a Russian River Town of its Nonchalance

By Evelyn Nieves

Farm laborers harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

As Covid-19 Surges, California Farmworkers Are Paying a High Price

By Evelyn Nieves

Cecelia Rojas, harvesting dinosaur kale, her largest crop. She used to pick strawberries as a farmworker, literally backbreaking work, but can take breathers these days.

Two Farmworkers Come Into Their Own, Escaping Low Pay, Rigid Hours and a High Risk of Covid-19

By Evelyn Nieves

Scott Magneson's California dairy farm has been in his family for generations.

A Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times

By Evelyn Nieves

Scott Chang-Fleetman. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

A Young Farmer Confronts Climate Change—and a Pandemic

By Evelyn Nieves

'Essential' but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working

By Evelyn Nieves

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