Drey’s diagnosis comes amid national attention on Iowa’s cancer crisis, which experts believe could be tied to a “toxic mix” of environmental and health risk factors.
A new analysis links manure and the overapplication of fertilizer from agriculture to contaminated water, and suggests the EPA’s allowed limits are too high to prevent nitrate-related cancer, thyroid disease and birth defects.
A series of lawsuits argues an obsolete profit-sharing system is subsidizing industrial dairy farms.
Survey says majority agree fungi-based foods are sustainable meat alternatives with a protein profile that’s similar to meat, despite knowledge gaps around the reasons why.
Community groups provide food and other necessities to former JBS employees still looking for work.
Industrial livestock operations produce 110 billion pounds of manure each year in Iowa, yet no one tracks where it’s all going. As the cancer incidence rate nationwide declines, it’s growing in Iowa, where diagnoses among young adults are rising faster than they are elsewhere.
In this webinar, you’ll hear two reporters based in Iowa, one from Sentient and one from Inside Climate News, share their experience in covering the effects of agricultural pollution on Iowans, from the science to the stories.
Environmental groups are suing one of the largest seafood companies in the country over alleged aquaculture pollution to the Columbia River.
Clearing forests for agriculture isn’t just an environmental issue, it’s a growing threat to biodiversity and public health.
The new USDA division wants to grow the seafood industry, but critics worry dismantling regulations will achieve the opposite.
Most farmed seafood comes from fin fish, but a new study urges shifting production toward bivalves and seaweed.