Food & Agriculture
Farmers and Community Groups Sue Trump and the USDA, Seeking Funds They Were Promised
By Georgina Gustin
In Florida, State Rules Concentrate Toxic Smoke in Underserved Communities
By Amy Green
Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?
Story and photos by Matilda Hay
USDA’s Purge of Climate Data is Illegal and Reckless, Doing Immediate Harm to Farmers, Lawsuit Alleges
By Miranda Lipton
Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing
By Liza Gross
To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa
By Wyatt Myskow
The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
New Mexico Lawmakers to Decide Whether Oil and Gas Wastewater Could Be Reused on Wide Scale
By Carrie Klein
Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Decades After It Disappeared, Wild Rice Is Booming Again on the Upper Mississippi River
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture
By Georgina Gustin
Traditional Foods, and the Threats They Face, Take Center Stage at Navajo Summit
By Noel Lyn Smith
Texas Farmers Say Sewage-Based Fertilizer Tainted With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Poisoned Their Land and Killed Their Livestock
By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune
As California Pushes Increased Ethanol Use, Experts Sound the Alarm on Environmental Impacts
By Nina B. Elkadi
As American Farms Face More Drought, Storms and Flooding, a New Agriculture Secretary Will Have to Reckon With Climate Change
By Georgina Gustin
Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way
Story and photos by Georgina Gustin