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Meet SEJ member Anne Marshall-Chalmers! Anne has reported on climate change, agriculture, public health, injustice and the spaces where these topics intersect. Currently, Anne is working on health and environment-related stories for The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom focused on veteran and military issues.

Adorned with rose-hued eyeglasses and tan plaid sweater eclectic chef and restaurateur Andrew Zimmern addressed a rapt crowd of around 100 attendees at Minneapolis Scandinavian-inspir

Extreme heat is the number one weather-related cause-of-death in the US, but few protections exist for workers who are vulnerable to heat illness.

The winner of a 2023 James Beard Media Award, Arkansas journalist Alice Driver has been nominated again, this time for her reporting on lobster fishery workers in Honduras.

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture missed a USDA grant deadline to allow food banks to buy from local farmers. Now, state officials are looking for ways to make up the funds.

Across East Texas, farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers who’ve run family farms and ranches for decades are retiring, leaving the profession or shutting down their operations.

In his new book, the Iowa native and competition expert exposes the system that has allowed seven families, including those behind Cargill, JBS, Driscoll’s, and Walmart, to build enormous power.

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After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.

Melissa and Wythe were honored to join The Farm Report team for this special and important series on the Farm Bill and the politics of food. Please check out the interview, and follow The Farm Report for more critical news and analysis of what's happening across all of agriculture. Despite an increasing number of farmers growing food in cities urban agriculture wasn’t acknowledged in the farm bill until 2018. Lisa Held, journalist with Civil Eats and former Farm Report host provides th...