Helene dropped up to 30 inches of rain on southern Appalachia, causing historic flooding and landslides in parts of North ...

Will Runion’s 736-acre cattle and hay farm is tucked into a horseshoe bend of the Nolichucky River in northeast Tennessee. On the morning of Friday, September 27, 2024, he was in the middle of two big ...

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Across eastern Europe, foraging is a popular activity that allows people to enjoy time in nature. And in Ukraine, considered ...

Irina Zhorov is a freelance reporter who works in both text and audio. Her work has appeared on NPR, the Gravy podcast, High ...

A landmark class action settlement agreement between Amazon and a group of residents in Eastern Oregon today marks the first time a Big Tech company has committed to paying damages related to public ...

“Vertical farming businesses blossomed a decade ago, promising an abundant, cleaner source of fruits and vegetables. Today, most of those start-ups have withered,” writes Kevin Draper. “Owners of ...

On Monday at 5:30 a.m., more than three thousand employees at the JBS beef packing plant in Greeley, Colorado, officially walked off the line. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 ...

FERN senior editor Ted Genoways traveled to Colorado to report on a strike vote by the unionized workers at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley. Many of these workers are from Haiti and are at risk ...

Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a three-mile loop at the Nelson-King Farms, in rural Mississippi. He began at the ...

“In Rawmarsh, the Rotherham-adjacent village where I grew up, food choices [in the early 2000s] still tended towards the traditional, both at home and in the school canteen: meats, boiled vegetables, ...