While nursing homes and prisons made up most rural hot spots in the spring, growing evidence now points to a […]

“When the pandemic first started, and we were just beginning to hear information about the impact on farmworkers, we knew […]

More Americans die from heat than from hurricanes, tornadoes or floods. Under some future scenarios, climate warming could increase heat deaths in North America fivefold. But figuring out how often climate change has already been the culprit in such deaths takes a special kind of detective work. Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public […]
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It’s really no wonder that the latest Pew Research Survey said that just 17 % of Americans currently trust government […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has allowed Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta to halt its water monitoring program of a pesticide […]

For those of us who cover Big Agriculture on a daily basis it was no secret. It was just a […]

Bayer has filed post-trial motions in the Missouri Bader Farms case, asking for the $265 million verdict to be overturned […]

First reported in December, there are now just over 297,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, worldwide as of […]

Workers at shelters for migrant children were warning that family separations would hurt children before the Trump administration ramped up the policy in the spring of 2018, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal investigation released Thursday. Once the administration began separations on a mass scale in April 2018 workers at […]
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One by one, three men from the same close-knit community took their own lives. Their deaths spanned a two-year stretch […]