Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 20, 2024 · South of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the valley of the Mississippi River fans out into a broad plain known as the Delta. The name is misleading: The region lies hundreds of miles north of the true river…
Buzzkill | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan 21, 2025 · Buzzkill, a six-part series from the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Hosted by FERN staff writer and producer Teresa Cotsilos. MOST RECENT EPISODES
A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the ...
Dec 31, 2024 · Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. From above, the surrounding landscape looks like stirred paint: a swirl of green amid inky lakes and brown rivers. Tibecocha, the larger of the two plantations, appears to have been etched into the jungle with a ruler and a straight razor. Its rectangular ...
Democratic platform calls for net-zero agricultural emissions by 2050
The U.S. farm sector would be the first in the world to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with the assistance of projects such as the USDA’s climate-smart agriculture initiatives…
In California, a native people fight to recover their stolen waters
May 16, 2024 · A study of centuries-old irrigation ditches suggests the Nüümü people could rightfully lay claim to the waters of Owens Lake.
Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
Last week, water experts marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a dire warning: After evaluating over 700,000 miles of rivers and streams across the country, they concluded that half…
USDA deregulates GM wheat, says it is safe to grow in U.S.
Aug 27, 2024 · For the first time, the Agriculture Department approved cultivation of genetically modified wheat in the United States on Tuesday, deregulating a drought- and herbicide-tolerant variety developed by…
The strange future of lab-grown meat - thefern.org
Dec 17, 2024 · The parfait on my plate wasn’t made in the traditional way of pâté and foie gras, from liver. It was grown from the connective tissue cells of a Japanese quail embryo harvested years ago and genetically induced to multiply forever in the lab. And it’s being served to me at a Climate Week event in New York by Joe Turner, chief …
The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem - Food and …
Mar 27, 2024 · America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath…
The rotten secret plaguing America’s grocery stores
Jun 6, 2024 · The end result of these problems is tons of food going uneaten before it spoils and perfectly good food thrown out. In 2022, grocery retailers in the United States generated about 5 million tons of surplus food, over a third of which went to landfills or was incinerated.