Late in 2018, a farmer in St. James Parish, Louisiana, began the final harvest of the sugarcane season. The green stalks, once cleared, revealed an unexpected topography: a small hill, four or five feet high, amid ground that had always lain flat. The farmland in question sits just north of a far larger—and far more … Continue reading Eaters of the earth: How the fertilizer industry leaves a trail of destruction across the American South