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Democrat Theresa Greenfield (left) is running against Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to represent Iowa in the Senate. Credit: Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call; Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Senate 2020: Iowa Farms Feel the Effects of Climate Change. Will That Make it Harder for Joni Ernst?

By Georgina Gustin

Farm laborers harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

As Covid-19 Surges, California Farmworkers Are Paying a High Price

By Evelyn Nieves

Cecelia Rojas, harvesting dinosaur kale, her largest crop. She used to pick strawberries as a farmworker, literally backbreaking work, but can take breathers these days.

Two Farmworkers Come Into Their Own, Escaping Low Pay, Rigid Hours and a High Risk of Covid-19

By Evelyn Nieves

Cattle are seen after they were driven across the border from Mexico into the United States in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets

By Georgina Gustin

Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Think Covid-19 Disrupted the Food Chain? Wait and See What Climate Change Will Do

By Georgina Gustin

Nutria, an invasive rodent from South America, damage wetlands, levees and agricultural crops, Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

A Big Rat in Congress Helped California Farmers in Their War Against Invasive Species

By Abby Weiss

For Some California Farmers, a Virus-Driven Drop in Emissions Could Set Back Their Climate Efforts

By Nicole Pollack

Scott Magneson's California dairy farm has been in his family for generations.

A Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times

By Evelyn Nieves

Scott Chang-Fleetman. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

A Young Farmer Confronts Climate Change—and a Pandemic

By Evelyn Nieves

Frances Moore Lappé speaks at a New York City event in the late 1970s.

Q&A: 50 Years Ago, a Young Mother’s Book Helped Start an Environmental Revolution

By Evelyn Nieves

Meat shelves lay empty at a supermarket in Saugus, Massachusetts on March 13, 2020. Credit: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables: Two Sides of a Supply Chain Problem

By Georgina Gustin

'Essential' but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working

By Evelyn Nieves

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio hands out reusable bags on Feb. 28, 2020, ahead of a plastic bag ban, The ban was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic

Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process

By Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, James Bruggers, Kristoffer Tigue

White cattle spread on pastures cultivated in the rainforest next to the Xingu river in Sao Felix do Xingu in Para state, northern Brazil. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses

By Georgina Gustin

Millions of locusts swarm in Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar. Credit: Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images

Locust Swarms, Some 3 Times the Size of New York City, Are Eating Their Way Across Two Continents

By Bob Berwyn

Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

American Climate Video: Giant Chunks of Ice Washed Across His Family’s Cattle Ranch

By Vernon Loeb

Farm in Russia. Credit: Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images

Billions of Acres of Cropland Lie Within a New Frontier. So Do 100 Years of Carbon Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

A cattle feedlot in Oklahoma. Credit: Alice Welch/USDA

Is Trump’s USDA Ready to Address Global Warming? There are Hopeful Signs.

By Georgina Gustin

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