ENVIRONMENT

What the ‘Insect Apocalypse’ Has to Do With the Food We Eat

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04.17.19
tractor spraying pesticides on a field

A Decade of Pesticides, GMOs, and Alternatives to Chemical-Intensive Farming

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04.10.19
A 2011 photo from the NASA Earth Observatory showing the blue green algae bloom.

Factory Farms are Polluting Lake Erie. Will the Lake’s New Legal Rights Help?

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04.09.19
Top photo: University of Missouri students produce maple syrup at Baskett Wildlife Research and Education Center. (Photo CC-licensed by the UM College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources.)

Could Maple Syrup Be a Climate Change Solution?

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04.03.19
farmer spraying pesticides on his farm with a safety mask on

California’s Pesticide Regulators Are Supposed to Consider Safer Alternatives. Many Don’t.

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03.20.19
At the Flying Deer Nature Center, the local forest is the playground for students. (Photo credit: Flying Deer Nature Center)

Foraging at Forest Schools, Where Nature is the Classroom

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03.18.19
art cullen and his brother john at the newspaper printing press

Art Cullen is Bringing Rural Farm Politics to the National Stage

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03.05.19
tractor

We Can’t Go On Like This: An Excerpt from ‘Storm Lake’

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03.05.19
Agriculture workers pick strawberries from a produce farm in Camarillo, Calif.

Farmworkers Are on the Frontlines of Climate Change. Can New Laws Protect Them?

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02.27.19

Turning Salt-Damaged Fields into Marshes Could Save Maryland Farmland—and The Chesapeake Bay

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02.20.19
hands digging up potatoes from healthy soil

As Awareness Grows About Food’s Role In Climate Change, What Solutions Exist?

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02.19.19
man spraying pesticides in a farm field

Can Eating Organic Lower Your Exposure to Pesticides?

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02.11.19
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey during the introduction of the Green New Deal resolutions.

What the New Green Deal Means for the Food on Your Plate

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02.07.19
Gorazd Trušnovec, a professional beekeeper in Ljubljana, tends to the beehives on the balcony of the offices of the prime minister of Slovenia

What the U.S. Could Learn From Slovenia About Protecting Bees

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02.04.19
a person eating a large hamburger

Investors Join Calls for a Food Revolution to Fight Climate Change

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02.01.19
Hundreds gather in San Francisco with the youth led Sunrise Movement to call on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to support the formation of a Select Committee to advance a Green New Deal to address Climate Change. (Photo CC-licensed by Peg Hunter)

A Green New Deal Must Include Food and Farming

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01.30.19
10 years of civil eats

10 Years of Civil Eats—What Has Changed in a Decade of Reporting on the Food System?

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01.29.19
Mark VanGessel holding an invasive palmer amaranth plant. (Photo CC-licensed by Delaware Agriculture)

Australia Might Have the Answer to Herbicide-Resistant ‘Superweeds’

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01.28.19