In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) had been identified in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States. This ...

This story was originally published in Investigate Midwest. Mass terminations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are “crippling” the agency, upending federal workers’ lives and leaving farmers and ...

Since President Donald Trump took office, Kyla Bennett’s phone won’t stop ringing. Email, too, is flooding her devices. Every day—and sometimes through the night—Bennett is receiving urgent messages ...

The following is the fifth installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and funded ...

Eight years after the Standing Rock Protests, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking Greenpeace to trial to suppress dissent.