From the sea floor to the courtroom, the fight to save right whales grows urgent

The fate of the world's rarest cetacean could hinge on a series of lawsuits that seek to change how the fishing industry operates

Media Partner

Food system workers may get early access to a Covid-19 vaccine, but how should states prepare?

Are Democrats missing a fundamental issue for rural voters?

The Nation

Could the food system face a new Covid-19 wave?

As California wildfires rage, the harvest goes on

KALW

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

China sets monthly record for purchases of U.S. food and ag

By ,  November 30, 2020

A ‘hungry winter’ ahead, as food insecurity remains severe

By ,  November 23, 2020

‘Justice’ bill would transfer up to 32 million acres to Black farmers

By ,  November 19, 2020

Smithfield settles suits over North Carolina farms, after losing appeal

By ,  November 19, 2020

Ag must make big changes to reach climate goals, says report

By ,  November 19, 2020

Merrigan, former No. 2 at USDA, ‘would welcome the opportunity’ to lead agency

By ,  November 17, 2020

Today’s quick hits, Nov. 18, 2020

November 17, 2020

In the water and in the courts, fight to save endangered right whales grows urgent

November 17, 2020

Boost SNAP benefits by 15 percent, says Fudge, potential USDA nominee

By ,  November 16, 2020

Will Colorado’s vote to bring back wolves be a model for conservationists?

By ,  November 12, 2020

Biden review of USDA may have a climate mitigation perspective

By ,  November 11, 2020

Anti-hunger advocates expect Biden administration to bolster safety net

By ,  November 11, 2020

Editor’s Desk — Our recent work, from Covid to climate

FERN’s Friday Feed: Can the courts save the world’s rarest whale?

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Editor’s Desk — Why a farmworker perished from Covid-19

After a farmworker in rural Texas died of complications from Covid-19, his family and federal investigators want answers

Texas Observer

At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

Mother Jones

How do climate change, migration and a deadly sheep disease alter our understanding of pandemics?

Ensia

FERN’s Friday Feed: A pandemic who-done-it

Editor’s Desk — FERN’s biodiversity initiative

Can grazing save endangered grasslands?

The Guardian

Pandemic and protest in a meatpacking town

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Latino USA

As Covid-19 rises, Alaskans crowd rivers to stock up on wild salmon

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