A Pennsylvania town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it
When Trish Leigey’s taps started running brown and foul in late 2019, she had an uneasy suspicion about what was…
This Trump official is dead set on saving a crumbling California dam
The Potter Valley Project, which dams Northern California’s Eel River, isn’t doing very much right now. Its reservoir is clogged…
The USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence?
Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology…
As seas rise, where will Louisiana’s fishers go?
A new paper generated a fair amount of consternation and eye-rolling when the authors claimed that New Orleans, the largest…
Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
Nebraska wonders which is riskier: The fires it starts, or the fires it fights
This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom…
S2G Closes $1 Billion Fund To Scale Food, Energy And Oceans Growth Companies
S2G Investments closed a $1 billion growth-stage fund targeting companies across food and agriculture, energy, and oceans. The fund is…
The Supreme Court is deciding whether Roundup, America’s most-used herbicide, needs a cancer warning
Since 2018, when it bought the chemical manufacturer Monsanto, the German conglomerate Bayer has set aside billions to settle legal…
While Zach Galifianakis finds peace in gardening, I’m at war with raccoons
I caught a raccoon almost literally red-handed the other day. The night before, it (and presumably the comrades in its…
The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities
The city has long been a beacon of opportunity, where folks flock to make it big. But metropolises the world…
American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules.
This story was published in partnership with The Associated Press. Over the past few years, Kentucky sheep farmer Daniel Bell…
New York City unveils its first rest stop for delivery workers
The day’s forecast called for high winds, but around midday in downtown Manhattan, it felt like a perfect spring day.…
The Iran war is changing how millions of people cook — and what they eat
About a decade ago, India’s government began subsidizing the purchase of liquid petroleum gas, or LPG, to promote greater adoption…