Market-driven sustainability initiatives were touted as a way to incentivize better environmental practices but a new study ...

Jones, a retired scientist and water advocate, is running for Iowa’s secretary of agriculture. Credit: Danny Wilcox Frazier.

President Donald Trump has pledged to give farmers and ranchers the ability to shoot federally protected wolves who are ...

A chemical additive helped stop fishmeal from catching fire on ships, but it carried a downstream carcinogenic risk to modern ...

The baby girl had been born healthy. Eight pounds, eight ounces. Then came the vomiting and crying. She wasn’t gaining weight. Her parents took her to the hospital, and again a few days later for ...

Documents show how the National Cattlemen’s Association launched a long-term misinformation campaign to downplay livestock’s ...

A new report from the World Resources Institute on its Coolfood pledge initiative observes progress and challenges in curbing ...

The Trump administration is proposing major updates to the standards, monitoring and enforcement for the way animals are treated, touting a “new era of animal welfare.” The U.S. Department of ...

Ian Urbina, is an investigative reporter and the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental and ...

The professor of political science remembers the neighbors emptying the waste from thousands of birds onto fields. She and her brother would break out into rashes. An Independent voters organization ...

Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...