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Food & Agriculture

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

For now, the state is counting on voluntary cuts among vegetable and pecan farmers. But that might not be enough.

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

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 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

Fishing boats are moored in the harbor on March 2, 2026, in Lyme Regis, England.

Despite Decades of Warnings, British Fish Stocks Are Collapsing

By Johnny Sturgeon

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

Cows graze in a deforested area of the Colombian Amazon. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia Passes First-Ever National Law Requiring Beef to Be Traced Back to Its Origins

By Georgina Gustin

Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Minnesota’s Rice Lake in September 2017. Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Wild Rice Faces Numerous Threats—and Has Determined Protectors

By Susan Cosier

Matthew Bormann, a fifth-generation farmer, is one-third of a trio of growers in Iowa’s flat and fertile Des Moines Lobe. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

A Kashmiri farmer spreads synthetic fertilizer around an apple orchard on May 23 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Credit: Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Iran War Jeopardizes Global Food Security

By Madeline Shaw

Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

A tractor berms soil for almond trees on a farm near Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise

By Liza Gross

A view of a methane digester at Straus Dairy Farm in Marshall, Calif. Credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

Trucks drive along the BR-163 highway through the Amazon rainforest in Pará, Brazil. Credit: Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images

The Brazilian Supreme Court Makes Way for the ‘Grain Train’

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows at a farm in northern Germany on July 2, 2025. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Top Climate Scientists Accuse the Livestock Industry of Pushing Fuzzy Math to Downplay Its Climate Warming Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

Seth Kroeck points out new spring growth in his wild blueberry fields at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Wild Blueberry Farms Across Maine Suffer as Climate Change Upends Growing Seasons

By Sydney Cromwell

Steam rises from a JBS beef production facility as workers strike during the early morning hours on March 16 in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

By Georgina Gustin

The Des Moines River is a drinking water source for more than 600,000 Iowans. When nitrate levels in the river spike, Central Iowa Water Works spends $9,000 to $16,000 a day operating its removal facilities. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

With Fertilizer Pollution on the Rise, Iowa Will Invest $100 Million in Water Treatment

By Anika Jane Beamer

Irrigation water flows at a cotton field in Porterville, Calif. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly One-Fifth of Americans Are Consuming Water With High Levels of Nitrates

By Georgina Gustin

The JBS meat packing plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Major Livestock and Animal Agriculture Companies Are Making Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping

By Georgina Gustin

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