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Folks,  Greetings from the ‘Burgh, where the air quality is atrocious.  2.8 Million Strike in France This Week  In Paris, 2.8 million workers were on strike this week according to the union CGT...

Korsha Wilson is a food writer and podcast host living in the New York City area. She is obsessed with restaurants, food, culture, and the intersection of how we eat and what it says about our society.

Water has always been a precious commodity in the western states. Now, with rapid population growth and a drying climate, the way this resource is shared and distributed is becoming more contentious across the region. Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham talks about the tensions between supply and demand and how to drill down into water rights laws and policies.

A New Orleans “social experiment” restaurant is asking white customers to pay more for their meals—all in the name of “wealth redistribution.” The restaurant, a temporary vegetarian Nigerian restaurant called Saartj, asks white customers voluntarily to pay $30 for lunch, instead of the standard price of $12. Black customers, likewise, are offered lunch for $12—but […]

A handful of corporations dominate our food system and the consequence is a loss of diversity, resilience, and freedom. But there is another way.

Although some climate activists argue in favor of doing away with major aspects of animal agriculture on the grounds that it pollutes ground and surface waters, wrecks ecosystems, shrinks habitat for wild species, harms Indigenous peoples, and contributes greatly to the climate crisis, it’s unlikely McDonald’s or monoculture farming to feed livestock are going away […]

Workers at the tens of thousands of hog, chicken, and cow CAFOs in the US face severe respiratory health burdens. The corporate response is risk management.

By Jacqueline Covey for Civil Eats.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Tucked high in a mountain range in San Diego County, California, ranch managers Rob Paulin and Jeremey Walker rely on "spunky" cows to mitigate wildfire by grazing on the chaparral brush and shrubbery that traditional market cattle wont seek-let alone eat. "Spunky," Paulin said with ...

With irrigation scarce, New Mexico is paying farmers to let their fields lie fallow. But some are choosing instead to bet on the monsoon season.

The EPA knows that plastic containers are leaching toxic 'forever chemicals' into pesticides. But PFAS are also ending up in pesticides from other sources—in much higher quantities.