Agriculture
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