They are neither plant nor animal, but a wild conglomeration of things, existing in ways that are so central to ecosystems that what we have learned about them forces the breakdown of ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

The history of the current dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over genetically modified corn has roots much deeper than the presidential decree that set it off. Opposition to GMO crops in Mexico has ...

Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in Deaf Smith County, an impossibly flat stretch of the Texas Panhandle where cattle outnumber people 40 to 1. The 67-year-old farmer and ...

South of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the valley of the Mississippi River fans out into a broad plain known as the Delta. The name is misleading: The region lies hundreds of miles north of the true river ...

In one of the nation's chicken-producing hubs, immigrant workers say their employers offer Band-Aids, ice, and ibuprofen for injuries that are often life-altering Alex Paul, a Haitian immigrant and ...

It’s 2016 and Simone Strey looks giddy. In the video, a clip from a series titled Innovators Under 35: Germany, the agritech entrepreneur awkwardly explains the challenge of jumping into the business ...

I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud that coated my windshield, and from then on, ...

In November, when a string of catastrophic storms hit the Pacific Northwest, the Nooksack River flooded, submerging farming communities in both the U.S. and Canada. Cows were swept away, and farmers ...

America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a ...

Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? If ...