By Brent Cunningham In “Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster,” FERN’s latest publishing partnership with The New York Times opinion section, science journalist and FERN contributor Maryn ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

By Brent Cunningham In episode 4 of Buzzkill, our new podcast series on the pollinator crisis, reporter Eve Abrams tells the story of how one Maryland couple’s dispute with their ...

The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural workers ...

Though undocumented immigrants make up just 5 percent of the labor pool, they make up 16 percent of food supply chain workers, from fruit pickers to slaughterhouse workers to ...

Episode 3 of Buzzkill, our new podcast series on the pollinator crisis, traces the roots of the exploitative and environmentally disastrous practices of modern industrial agriculture to the ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

“For decades, most mainstream green advocacy groups and top environmental scientists have been largely aligned with Democratic policies and leaders. Now, however, many people who are advocating for ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...