An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees

Almond growers rely on honeybees to survive, but a new report shows bees are facing record losses and barely keeping pace with the booming industry.

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Organic farming has a plastic problem. One solution is controversial.

NPR's The Salt

Fifty years later, a daunting cleanup of Vietnam’s toxic legacy

Yale Environment 360

The Loophole: How American forests fuel the EU’s appetite for ‘green’ energy

Weather.com

As oceans heat up, the types of seafood we eat will change

EatingWell

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Justice Dept. intervenes in major poultry price-fixing case

By ,  June 24, 2019

Looming crisis for almond industry, as bee census records highest winter losses yet

June 20, 2019

Enviva, a giant in wood pellets, shifts tree-sourcing policy

By ,  June 10, 2019

Organic farmers want a solution to their plastic problem

June 7, 2019

JBS, under fire for taking Trump’s tariff bailout, is accused of polluting a Colorado river

By ,  May 30, 2019

Controversial pesticide use sees dramatic increase across the Midwest

By and ,  May 28, 2019

Catch shares lead to consolidation of Alaskan fisheries

By ,  May 28, 2019

Trade war expands government role in agriculture, despite decades of free-market reforms

By ,  May 21, 2019

Sec. Perdue is open to carbon markets for farmers, Pingree says

By ,  May 14, 2019

Cleaning up a toxic legacy in Vietnam

May 13, 2019

In Missouri, lawmakers are poised to eliminate local regulation of CAFOs

By ,  May 7, 2019

As the oceans warm, the seafood we eat will have to change

May 7, 2019

FERN’s Friday Feed: Where there’s smoke, there’s politics

Editor’s Desk: The big herbicide divide; EU’s appetite for American wood

Toronto restaurant fights food waste by chopping menu prices till all the dishes are gone

NPR's The Salt

The herbicide dicamba is sparking a civil war in farm country

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Reveal

After mega-dairy was shut down, Oregon lawmakers consider a moratorium on new operations

The Oregonian

As the heat rises, farmworkers band together

The Nation

Editor’s Desk: From coastlines to strawberry fields

What pesticide monitoring misses

New Food Economy

As coastal flooding surges, ‘living shorelines’ seen as the answer

Scientific American

A lifeline for SNAP payments at farmers’ markets

Washington Post

Bees face yet another lethal threat in dicamba, a drift-prone weedkiller

Reveal

Where beef is more than dinner

California Report
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