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Food & Agriculture

Greece’s Seafood Problem Starts Elsewhere

One of Europe’s biggest aquaculture industries is linked to overfishing, pollution, food insecurity and labor abuses.

By Johnny Sturgeon, Ian Urbina

Fish farms along the Xiromero coastline in Greece in 2026. The local municipality has submitted an appeal to the country’s highest court opposing proposed expansion plans. Credit: Johnny Sturgeon/The Outlaw Ocean Project

China’s Blue Mirage

By Ian Urbina

Cattle feed at a ranch in Dublin, Texas, on Sept. 11. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem

By Georgina Gustin

Freshly caught mackerels sit on ice in Brest, France, on Dec. 11, 2025. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images

Retailers Warn Europe’s Fishing Industry to Stop Overfishing

By Johnny Sturgeon

The Rio Grande flows through the San Luis Valley on May 5. Credit: Jacob Spetzler/Inside Climate News

A Colorado Water Trial Could Decide the Future of an Agricultural Valley

By Emily Payne

Nicole Williams’ home was built on land that once belonged to the farm behind her, which has been identified as the source of PFAS in her well. Credit: Ben Seal/Inside Climate News

The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities

By Ben Seal

There are around 215 aquaculture operations in Maine, such as this seaweed bed. Credit: Justin Smulski

A Battle Brews Over Maine’s Salmon Farms

By Sydney Cromwell

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

A view of fish cages at a salmon farm in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Credit: Colin McPherson/Getty Images

Farmed Salmon May Not Be as Nutritious as It Once Was, New Research Suggests

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

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