Agriculture

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

The broad set of practices is becoming more popular at a time when climate change is stressing the state’s land—and the people who work on it.

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

Trump Targets Big Bad Wolves, but Ranchers Say Other Administration Actions Drive Their Woes

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

California Adopts New Limits to Rein in Dairy Manure Pollution and Its ‘Outsized’ Groundwater Impacts

By Steven Rodas

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides

By Liza Gross

Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them

By Georgina Gustin

How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution

By Lisa Sorg

California Dairy Farm’s New Biogas Project Makes History and Raises Eyebrows

By Steven Rodas

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic?

By Liza Gross

As Water Pollution Concerns Grow in Iowa, So Do Fertilizer Industry Profits

By Anika Jane Beamer

Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills

By Anika Jane Beamer

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme

By Georgina Gustin