A grassroots push to save vanishing birds and bees forces change on Germany’s farms

Shocking declines in bird and insect numbers fuel a powerful, citizen-based movement to protect nature, one that seems to be catching on across Europe.

Media Partner

In the jungles of Borneo a novel approach to end deforestation — and the spread of disease

Popular Science

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

Yale Environment 360

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

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Dean Foods seeks to get back money paid to dairy farmers before bankruptcy

By ,  December 9, 2020

Biden chooses moderate Vilsack to return as agriculture secretary

By ,  December 8, 2020

A Biden possibility: Tom Vilsack as three-term agriculture secretary

By ,  December 7, 2020

In Puerto Rico, 40 percent suffer food insecurity with no end in sight

By ,  December 7, 2020

A novel approach to deforestation may also offer a pandemic safety net

December 2, 2020

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

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

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

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
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