Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last
A recent report from Brazil’s national space agency showed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the lowest…
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing?
When Kekuewa Kikiloi boarded a research vessel to visit the northwestern Hawaiian islands in 2002, he didn’t know…
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…
No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill
Nearly six years ago, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the president signed a piece…
Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.
For decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, worked across many of the world’s most food-insecure…
Trump’s plan for meat processing would harm workers and the environment
In February, the United States Department of Agriculture announced two proposed changes to federal rules governing the rate…
Climate experts say spring is coming earlier. How will that affect agriculture and ecosystems?
As a row crop farmer in St. Joseph, Missouri, Joe Lau said he’s noticing more extreme weather these…
Oceans absorb the Earth’s excess energy, imperiling food systems
Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators — including the…
Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’
Last week, following escalating attacks on critical energy and water facilities, the Israeli-U.S. war in Iran entered a…
To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to…
After a lawsuit, USDA agrees to share climate risk data with farmers
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office last January, employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were reportedly…