Environment

Chickens forage between the solar arrays at Jack's Solar Garden. (Photo credit: Jack's Solar Garden)

As Federal Support for On-Farm Solar Declines, Is Community Agrivoltaics the Future?

By Rebekah Alvey

September 16, 2025

While the Trump administration disincentivizes solar developments on farms, agrivoltaics continue anyway, with local and state support.

As Extreme Weather Increases Flooding on Farms, Federal Support for Climate Resilience Evaporates

September 10, 2025

Former Indiana farm field that frequently flooded now restored as wetlands for duck hunting business credit: Ray McCormick

EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS

September 8, 2025

LAMONT, CA - AUGUST 12: Farm workers spray chemicals at the edge of a field bordering homes on August 12, 2004 near the town of Lamont, southeast of Bakersfield, California. California's Central Valley is one of the nation's most important agricultural and oil producing areas. Mass food production has brought heavy use of chemicals, including pesticides that have sickened hundreds of area workers and residents. In 2002, the last year for which numbers are available, 172 million pounds of pesticides were used on California fields sickening 478 people as airborne chemicals drifted 39 times, according to the state Department of Pesticide Regulation. On May 2, a crew of 100 workers was caught in a drift of pesticide at nearby Arvin that made 19 of them sick, including a woman who was five months pregnant. This spring, state Sen. Dean Florez introduced a bill, the Pesticide Drift Exposure Response Act, to help pay for field workers' medical care. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Louisiana Shrimpers Fight to Save Their Industry

By Jake Price and Olivia Shaffett

August 13, 2025

Jared Lemoine sorts shrimp for bait behind Campo's Marina in Shell Beach, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Jake Price)

The MAHA Movement’s Climate Conundrum

August 12, 2025

Elisa Lane in her 200-tree pawpaw orchard. “I’ve heard people say that farmers are on the frontlines of climate change,” she said. “Someone smarter than me said that, but it’s true.”

The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects

By Riley Ramirez

July 23, 2025

COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 03: Sprinklers water an agricultural field on July 3, 2024 near Coachella, California. A long-duration heat wave is impacting much of California with authorities warning of extreme health and wildfire risks. An excessive heat warning is in effect for all of the Coachella Valley through July 8th with highs forecast of up to 121 degrees. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

What Bees Can Teach Us About Survival and Well-being

By Elena Valeriote

July 21, 2025

US Importers Sued for ‘Greenwashing’ Mexican Avocados

By Isabella Kaminski

July 9, 2025

A man carries a sack of Avocados at the avocado market

From Bees to Beer, Buckwheat Is a Climate-Solution Crop

By Elena Valeriote

July 8, 2025

A field of flowering buckwheat. A buckwheat plants can produce as many as 2,000 flowers, according to research. Experts recommend planting about 700,000 buckwheat plants per acre.

Farmworkers Heal Climate-Scarred Land With Native Seeds

By Caleb Hampton

July 7, 2025

a film photo of a A crew at Hedgerow Farms hand harvests Lasthenia californica in Winters, CA.

Trump Cuts Threaten Federal Bee Research

July 2, 2025

Bee researchers worry that federal funding cuts jeopardize monitoring of these critical pollinators.

Can This Baltimore Academy Continue to Train Urban Farmers?

June 30, 2025

Denzel Mitchell at Black Butterfly Teaching Farm. (Photo credit: Sam Delgado)

Op-ed: There Is No Future Where the Lakota and the Buffalo Don’t Exist Together

By Elsie Dubray

June 25, 2025

A National Soil-Judging Contest Prepares College Students to Steward the Land

June 24, 2025

An unidentifiable farmer holds soil from a field.

Conservation Work on Farms and Ranches Could Take a Hit as USDA Cuts Staff

June 23, 2025

Ranchers herd cattle across open range in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, New Mexico.

How Big Ag Lobbyists Perpetuate Climate Inequity

By Brian Calvert

June 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: The U.S. Capitol building is seen in the rain on February 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Senate is convening for a rare Sunday session to vote on a supplementary spending bill that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan without addressing border security after Republicans in the House abandoned an agreement that they initially agreed to. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Honey Bees Learn to Fight Deadly Varroa Mites

By Jordan Charbonneau

June 11, 2025

Honey bee closeup.

Op-ed: Save California’s Crab Culture From Drowning in Regulations

By Samantha Ross

June 4, 2025

Stanley Ross (at left, coiling rope) and friends pull up crab traps just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge on an early November morning in 2018. (Photo credit: Samantha Ross)

Warming Waters Cause Invasion of Sea Squirts at Maine Fisheries

By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

May 27, 2025

A fisherman pulls up a big fishing cage off of a boat. He is wearing yellow waders and a beanie

What Deep Cuts to NOAA Mean for U.S. Fisheries

May 15, 2025

multiple colorful small boats line a small harbor in Rhode Island on a sunny day with blue skies

Civil Eats Nominated for Two James Beard Journalism Awards

By The Civil Eats Editors

May 13, 2025

Nick Tilsen during the Mount Rushmore Land Back Protest. (Photo credit: Willi White)

Could This Arizona Ranch Be a Model for Southwest Farmers?

By Samuel Gilbert

May 12, 2025

Oatman Flats Ranch farm manager Yadi Wang kneels in a field of cover crops planted during fallow periods to help restore soil health and reduce erosion. (Photo Credit: Samuel Gilbert)

Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative

By Nate Powell-Palm

May 8, 2025

Farmers hands harvesting organic dandelion greens cutting base of stems

Proposal Could Threaten Endangered Species’ Survival in Farm Country

By Brian Calvert

May 7, 2025

A monarch butterfly on tropical milkweed. (Photo credit: Sue Zellers, Getty Images)

The Future of California’s Climate-Smart Farming Programs

May 5, 2025

an elder Hmong American woman wearing gloves and a hat stands under an umbrella to string up a produce on a trellis on a farm in California