Agriculture

International Coalition of Lawyers and Advocacy Groups Accuses JBS of Money Laundering

The coalition also says the meat giant’s lawyers, accountants, investors and lenders have an obligation to better investigate the company’s ties to deforestation.

By Georgina Gustin

US Loses a Football Field of Forest Every 2 Minutes

By Dennis Pillion

‘Bookkeeping Trick’ and Fuzzy Math Conceal the Climate Impacts of Beef, Researchers Say

By Georgina Gustin

Ahead of Midterms, Republicans Court Iowa Farmers With Fuel Plans

By Anika Jane Beamer

Production Agriculture Is Driving Grasslands Loss Across North America

By Georgina Gustin

Amid Iowa’s Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting

Story by Anika Jane Beamer, photos by Zach Spindler-Krage

The Locations of North Carolina’s Industrial Poultry Farms Have Been a Secret—Until Now

By Lisa Sorg

Farmers and Advocates Say the Global Food System Is Failing—and Its Financiers Are to Blame

By Georgina Gustin

The World Bank Has Withdrawn a Major Loan to an Agribusiness Tied to Deforestation 

By Georgina Gustin

A Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘No One Needs’ Is Found in Dangerous Quantities in a Quarter of US Rivers

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Modern Aquaculture’s Invisible Cost: Its Putrid Stench

By Ian Urbina

Regenerative Growers in Florida Aim to Improve Soil for Health of Food, Environment, Consumers and Workers

By Sara Pepitone

The Fishfeed Trap

By Ian Urbina

China’s Blue Mirage

By Ian Urbina

The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem

By Georgina Gustin

A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley

By Emily Payne

The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities

By Ben Seal

A Battle Brews Over Maine’s Salmon Farms

By Sydney Cromwell

For Climate-Vulnerable Countries, Debt Costs 25 Times More Than Climate Action

By Alissa de Chassey