Food + Environment
A fisherman holding a crab up close to the camera. March 2022
Catching crabs in a suffocating sea
A fisherman holding a crab up close to the camera. March 2022
03.03.2022
by Julia Rosen
In an aerial view, an irrigation canal separates an almond orchard and a field that lies fallow on May 25, 2021 in Firebaugh, California.
A vision for more sustainable farmlands
In an aerial view, an irrigation canal separates an almond orchard and a field that lies fallow on May 25, 2021 in Firebaugh, California.
03.01.2022
by Theo Whitcomb / High Country News
The EPA administrator, Michael S. Regan, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, speaks in Pennsylvania in December 2021. February 2022
“A pretty big sea change”: EPA says it will consider endangered species when approving new pesticides—with or without the threat of lawsuits
The EPA administrator, Michael S. Regan, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, speaks in Pennsylvania in December 2021. February 2022
02.28.2022
by Johnathan Hettinger
Shot of lettuce // Why climate change will lead to more produce contamination
Why climate change will lead to more contaminated produce—and more food poisoning
Shot of lettuce // Why climate change will lead to more produce contamination
02.24.2022
by Lela Nargi
Rosa Perez worries while standing by fence and in black shirt what many years of consuming the tap water in Fuller Acres February 2022 social.
This California farming town has a toxic carcinogen in its water. Why are solutions so slow?
Rosa Perez worries while standing by fence and in black shirt what many years of consuming the tap water in Fuller Acres February 2022 social.
02.17.2022
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report
A field of dead corn sits next to the Lincolnland Agri-Energy ethanol plant July 25, 2012 in Palestine, Illinois. 021422
Corn ethanol was supposed to help the climate. Instead, its production may have made things worse.
A field of dead corn sits next to the Lincolnland Agri-Energy ethanol plant July 25, 2012 in Palestine, Illinois. 021422
02.14.2022
by Jessica Fu
A shellfish company gets into the weeds
01.26.2022
by Sarah Sax / High Country News
Julia Bernal (Sandia, Taos and Yuchi-Creek Nations of Oklahoma) in Sandoval County in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. “It’s like this concept of landback. Once you get the land back, what are you going to do with it after? It’s the same thing. If we get the water back, what are we gonna do with it after? How are we going to maintain water?” Bernal, the director of the Pueblo Action Alliance, believes that “landback” can’t happen without “water back.”
Indigenous feminism flows through the fight for water rights on the Rio Grande
Julia Bernal (Sandia, Taos and Yuchi-Creek Nations of Oklahoma) in Sandoval County in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. “It’s like this concept of landback. Once you get the land back, what are you going to do with it after? It’s the same thing. If we get the water back, what are we gonna do with it after? How are we going to maintain water?” Bernal, the director of the Pueblo Action Alliance, believes that “landback” can’t happen without “water back.”
01.13.2022
by Christine Trudeau / High County News + Kalen Goodluck
controlled burn of sugar cane in florida feature january 2022.
Burning sugar cane pollutes communities of color in Florida. Brazil shows there’s another way.
controlled burn of sugar cane in florida feature january 2022.
01.07.2022
by Nadia Sussman, ProPublica