Agriculture

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise of data centers were just a few of the consequential stories that Inside Climate News tracked in 2025.

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A River That Millions Rely on for Water Is on the Brink. A Deal to Save It Isn’t.

By Wyatt Myskow, Blanca Begert, Jake Bolster

Ohio Farmers Say Regenerative Agriculture Methods Helped Them Survive a Drought. State and Federal Leaders Are Slashing Programs That Fund Them.

By Michael Riojas

Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going.

By Anika Jane Beamer, Nina B. Elkadi

Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills.

By Sydney Cromwell

International Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Super Pollutant Falls Short, UN Report Reveals

By Phil McKenna

Unpredictable Spurts of Dry and Wet Weather Cause Confusion and New Challenges for Midwestern Farmers

By Katie Cerulle

N.C. Supreme Court Says State Regulators Erred on CAFO Permits

By Lisa Sorg

Can We Produce More Food With Less Land?

By Anika Jane Beamer

Cranberry Farmers Consider Turning Bogs Into Wetlands as Temperatures Rise

By Nicole Williams

Data Center Developer Takes a Small Michigan Farming Community to Court

By K.R. Callaway

America’s Rye Whiskey Resurgence Could Help the Climate, but Not by Itself

By Emily Payne

Iowa Counties Keep Water Quality Monitoring Afloat After State Funding Cuts

By Anika Jane Beamer

Wetlands Help Remedy Agricultural Pollution. Some Illinois Farmers Are Installing New Ones.

By Alexia Underwood

Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working.

By Theo Peck-Suzuki

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

By Anika Jane Beamer

California Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy

By Liza Gross

Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably.

By Liza Gross