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Agriculture

A Battle Brews Over Maine’s Salmon Farms

Lobstermen and salmon conservationists say industrial aquaculture is ruining the health of Maine’s waters and threatening its fishing heritage.

By Sydney Cromwell

There are around 215 aquaculture operations in Maine, such as this seaweed bed. Credit: Justin Smulski
In 2024, farmers in Zambia struggled with El Nino-driven drought, which created severe food and water shortages. This year, the government is spending 60 percent of its budget on debt repayment, with only .32 percent going toward climate adaptation and resilience. Credit: Lusaka Province, Zambia

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

By Alissa de Chassey

Wolves roam around Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Ashton Hooker/NPS

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

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

Cattle at a Porterville dairy farm in California’s Central Valley. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Steven Rodas

The crop duster spraying a field is flying low in the direction of the photographer

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

By Liza Gross

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks to the press outside of the White House on Aug. 25. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Inside a CAFO that raises hogs for Smithfield Foods. Credit: Kathryn Gamble/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution

By Lisa Sorg

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies equipment sits next to the Bar 20 dairy farm in Kerman, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

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

By Steven Rodas

Farmworkers tend to a strawberry field covered in plastic on Aug. 5, 2022, near Ventura, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic?

By Liza Gross

The CF Industries fertilizer complex in Donaldsonville, La. Credit: Emily Kask/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

A former soybean field and six-acre earthen basin in Castana, Iowa, where a private developer planned to dump dehydrated manure from an out-of-town slaughterhouse. Credit: Scott Koepsell

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

Legendary farmworker activist Dolores Huerta speaks at a press conference in Sacramento before a legislative oversight hearing on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of confinement lots at Blackshirt Feeders in Dundy County, Nebraska. Credit: Sonya Doctorian/Inside Climate News

A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme

By Georgina Gustin

Cows wait to be milked at a dairy farm in Hastings, Minn. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

A Minnesota Dairy Company’s Rapid Expansion Is Prompting Lawsuits Against Regulators

By Georgina Gustin

At the crux of the lawsuit is the permit’s lack of “representative monitoring” to detect the illegal entrance of pollutants into ground and surface water from CAFOs. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A New Oregon Permit for Industrial Farms Violates the Clean Water Act, Advocates Allege

By Claire Barber

The dry riverbed of the Rio Grande is seen next to pecan orchards in Radium Springs, N.M., before annual water releases began on May 30.

The Clock Is Ticking for New Mexico to Cut Rio Grande Water Use

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

The JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

The World’s Largest Meat Company Abandons Its Climate and Deforestation Goals

By Georgina Gustin

Drought and intruding salt water helped turn this former rice field in Gambia into a “wet desert.” Credit: Phred Dvorak/Inside Climate News

In Gambia, Salt Water Intrusion Is the Leading Edge of Climate Change

By Phred Dvorak

Planada residents David and Rita Rodriguez are concerned over expansion plans from a nearby dairy farm in Le Grand, Calif. Credit: Steven Rodas/Inside Climate News

Dairy Farms’ Expansion Plan Worries California Families Who Once Had a ‘Little Piece of Heaven’

By Steven Rodas

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