A look back at our coverage of food regulations, and their impact, at all levels of government—from national to state to ...

Federal, state, and city government food policies shape our food system, as does the environment—and so do we, the people, ...

In 2024, for example, we wrote about the often-overlooked food angle in the Land Back Movement, which aims to return land to ...

Several states are trying to phase out the use of pesticides containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), long-lasting chemicals linked to serious health risks including cancer, liver damage ...

Droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding brought on by climate change all have a massive impact on the food ...

At the Salton Sea State Recreation Area in Southern California, the smell of rotten eggs permeates the air. The odor is hydrogen sulfide, a gas produced by microbes in water depleted of oxygen. As the ...

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Reflecting on her journey to the South, the entrepreneur ...

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast ...

This is the second of two articles about the Mashpee Wampanoag’s efforts to assert their fishing rights on Cape Cod. Read the first story here. Vernon “Buddy” Pocknett steered his truck through the ...

While most Buffalonians are fast asleep, Stephen Horton of Miller’s Thumb Bakery begins milling fresh flour at 3:30 a.m. every morning. For the next two hours, he carefully feeds beadlike kernels of ...

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