https://thefern.org/2025/05/reap-sow-video-trouble-on-the-line/
REAP/SOW Video: Trouble on the line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2022/03/the-fight-for-british-columbias-forests/
The controversial biofuel threatening British Columbia’s forests | Food and Environment Reporting...
Apr 24, 2022 - On a chilly afternoon last autumn, I padded down a faint path beneath a grove of hemlock trees in British Columbia’s inland temperate rainforest.
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https://thefern.org/2023/12/what-good-is-beef/
What good is beef? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - At the age of twelve, I parted ways with my religion. All it took was a sandwich. I broke the news to my father in the evening. He had just come home…
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https://thefern.org/2017/10/changing-face-woods-work/
The changing face of woods work | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/documentary-short-ferns-special-issue-on-food-and-power/
Documentary short: FERN’s special issue on food and power | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 30, 2025 - Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News.
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/editors-desk-live-from-d-c-its-forked/
Editor’s Desk: Live from D.C., it’s Forked! | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/food-is-power/
Food is power | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 2, 2025 - Many communities have foods that define them: Los Angeles has tacos, Green River, Utah, has melons, while New Mexico’s Hatch Valley is famous for its green…
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https://thefern.org/special-series/switchyard-food-issue/
Switchyard Food Issue | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/03/where-your-ultraprocessed-food-comes-from/
Where your (ultraprocessed) food comes from | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 2, 2025 - If you want to see the birthplace of America’s ultraprocessed diet, take a drive through the upper Midwest in high summer. Before long, you’ll be...
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https://thefern.org/2020/05/a-burst-of-home-grown-food-farming-in-alaska/
A burst of home-grown food, farming, in Alaska | Food and Environment Reporting Network
May 21, 2020 - Meghan Gervais is a commercial fisherman and mother of three who lives in Homer, Alaska, a town with a single highway connecting it to the rest of the...
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https://thefern.org/2025/11/trouble-at-sea-a-video-documentary/
Trouble at sea, a video documentary | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 1, 2025 - Despite having the most prolific remaining wild salmon runs on Earth, Alaska leads the world in salmon hatchery production. The state’s modern hatchery...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/is-farm-labor-at-risk/
Is farm labor at risk? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/just-how-fragile-is-alaskas-food-supply-chain/
Just how fragile is Alaska’s food supply chain? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2022/06/when-climate-adaptation-goes-wrong/
When climate adaptation goes wrong | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan 19, 2023 - Asadul Islam peers over the edge of a boardwalk on his pond in southwest Bangladesh and watches as hundreds of caged crabs float past beneath him.
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/the-strange-future-of-lab-grown-meat/
The strange future of lab-grown meat | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2021/11/the-farmworkers-in-californias-fire-zones/
The farmworkers in California’s fire zones | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/01/ethanol-is-just-comically-inefficient-solar-energy/
Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/02/a-farm-bill-for-farmworkers/
The essential workers missing from the farm bill | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - Farm work has long been among the most dangerous jobs in America. But while Congress has had many chances to bolster labor protections in the 18 versions of...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/eating-bitterness/
Eating bitterness | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Nov 14, 2025 - Against a vast wash of sagebrush and volcanic rock in Utah’s West Desert, Chris Merritt, an archaeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office…
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https://thefern.org/2018/09/india-is-awash-in-palm-oil-and-health-takes-a-hit/
India is awash in palm oil, and health takes a hit | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2023/12/buzzkill/
Buzzkill | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 18, 2024 - Judy Wu-Smart brings me to the scene of the crime. It’s a green yard framed by trees, with a patch of flowers in the middle, set among farm fields half an...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/ghanas-toxic-gold-rush/
Ghana’s toxic gold rush | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/murdered-name-palm-oil-qa-jocelyn-zuckerman/
Murdered in the name of palm oil: a Q&A with Jocelyn Zuckerman | Food and Environment Reporting...
Dec 10, 2016 - Palm oil is the secret ingredient in, well, nearly everything. From dish soap to peanut butter, the oil shows up in cleaning products and cosmetics and…
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https://thefern.org/2025/03/immigrants-on-the-line-2/
Immigrants on the line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 10, 2025 - In early December 2023, through a scrim of swirling flurries, Mackenson Remy steered his minivan past an open gate in the security fence surrounding a gray…
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/anatomy-of-a-convenience-food/
Anatomy of a convenience food | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/dont-eat-like-a-pro/
(Don’t) eat like a pro | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 18, 2025 - A couple of years ago, when my daughter Sandy was in fifth grade, she fell in love with Gatorade. A couple of times a week, she’d beg me for a few dollars...
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https://thefern.org/2018/01/unlikely-climate-crusade-trump-country/
An unlikely climate crusade in Trump country | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 22, 2019 - It was a quarter after eight on a steamy August morning when Rachel Grantham rumbled up in a big black pickup truck. The 26-year-old, six-foot-three...
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https://thefern.org/2015/10/children-left-vulnerable-by-world-bank-amid-push-for-development/
Children Left Vulnerable By World Bank Amid Push For Development | Food and Environment Reporting...
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https://thefern.org/2023/08/why-are-we-paying-for-crop-failures-in-the-desert/
Why are we paying for crop failures in the desert? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Aug 10, 2023 - In mid-July in Phoenix, a man demonstrated to a local news station how to cook steak on the dashboard of his car. The city sweltered through a nearly...
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https://thefern.org/2023/06/climate-savior-or-monsanto-of-the-sea/
Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 15, 2024 - Early on a cool spring morning, in far Downeast Maine, Severine von Tscharner Welcome and her husband, Terran, scrambled along a point jutting into Cobscook...
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/ferns-friday-feed-parrots-in-peril/
FERN’s Friday Feed: Parrots in peril | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Nov 20, 2025 - “Each one of us has a unique scent profile, like a fingerprint. Everything from our personality type – such as extroversion, dominance and neuroticism –...
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https://thefern.org/2021/10/one-alaska-bay-is-booming-with-salmon-for-now/
One Alaska bay is booming with salmon, for now | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 24, 2022 - On a mid-July afternoon, when the tide was starting to come in on the Naknek River, the Bandle family’s commercial fishing nets lay stretched across the...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/podcast-ferns-special-issue-on-food-and-power-in-the-west/
Podcast: FERN’s special issue on food and power in the west | Food and Environment Reporting...
Sep 30, 2025 - Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News.
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https://thefern.org/2023/10/alone-on-the-range/
Alone on the Range | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 30, 2024 - The job was Gustavo’s idea, and the escape was his idea, too. “If he kills us, he kills us,” he told his kid brother, Iván, one night after work in...
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https://thefern.org/2025/11/offshore-aquaculture-is-coming-to-the-gulf-coast/
Offshore aquaculture is coming to the Gulf Coast | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 4, 2025 - The world now eats more farmed seafood than we eat from the wild ocean. That’s turned farming fish into a massive business, one that American consumers...
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https://thefern.org/2024/05/the-u-s-mexico-tortilla-war/
The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/10/we-need-more-native-american-restaurants/
We need more Native American restaurants | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 1, 2024 - If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity.
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/power-failure/
Power failure | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 18, 2024 - I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud...
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https://thefern.org/special-series/the-farm-bill-fight/
The Farm Bill Fight | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Livestock and Rural Communities | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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