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By Theodore Ross Many of the most important questions environmentalists must face are about tradeoffs. What steps are we willing to take to fix our climate problems? What do we do when our ...
The Food and Drug Administration said there has been no uptick of human cases of the flu or no cases of H5N1 bird flu in people beyond the dairy worker in Texas who contracted the highly pathogenic ...
Claims about hydropower as a clean, green, sustainable power source,” writes Christopher Ketcham, “issue with equal aplomb from government regulators, enviro journalists, climate academics and ...
PFAS, which reliably repel water, grease, and heat, are used in everything from paper plates to rain jackets. The compounds,” writes Bridget Huber, “which don’t break down in the ...
Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews, and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy ...
A fraction of U.S. farmers, about 3.5 percent, receive payments for oil, gas, and wind energy production on their land, and those payments provide “substantial income,” said a USDA report. With the ...
Sue Hunter in her greenhouse on her 150-acre farm in Unity, Maine. Hunter, a former dairy farmer, was about to turn the operation over to her grandson when testing revealed elevated levels of PFAS ...
A fraction of U.S. farmers, about 3.5 percent, receive payments for oil, gas, and wind energy production on their land, and those payments provide “substantial income,” said a USDA report. With the ...
The latest Census of Agriculture, released in February, reported a 2.2 percent decline in U.S. farmland from 2017 to 2022. A portion of that reduction, involving corn and soybean cropland, may be ...
The latest Census of Agriculture, released in February, reported a 2.2 percent decline in U.S. farmland from 2017 to 2022. A portion of that reduction, involving corn and soybean cropland, may be ...
In FERN’s latest story, published with Truthdig, reporter Christopher Ketcham unpacks the extensive human and environmental costs of hydroelectricity, even as government regulators, environmental ...
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