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With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It'

A firefighter surveys the Bond Fire—started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation—on December 3, 2020 in Silverado, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

'Nature Is Under Siege': Scientists Sound Alarm About Insect Apocalypse

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A dragonfly sits in reedbeds on the Isle of Grain on August 31, 2016 in Isle of Grain, England. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The lead author of the new research package notes that insects "are absolutely the fabric by which Mother Nature and the tree of life are built."

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One Year After Declaring Climate Emergency, Scientists Say 'Massive-Scale Mobilization' Necessary

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Global scientists on Wednesday issued a new warming about the need for bold climate action on six key fronts. (Image: Oregon State University/YouTube)

"Aggressive, transformative change, framed against the backdrop of social...

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'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

The "exclusion of undocumented workers in Nebraska from receiving vaccines is hypocritical, racist, cruel, and only helps spread Covid-19," said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). (Photo: Natalie Behring/AFP via Getty Images)

"Everyone deserves to be vaccinated, especially the workers who feed us—and...

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Sarah Gattiker stores the 24,200th species of seed in the vault at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, which now holds 10% of the world's wild plant species, on October 15, 2009 in Sussex, England. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization

The climate cost of organic meat production is as dear as that of conventionally produced animal products, a study published in December 2020 revealed. (Photo: Farm Sanctuary/Flickr/cc)

Climate Cost of Organic Meat Is Just as High as That of Conventionally Grown Animals: Study

Convention chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) delivers remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia. (Photo: Paul Morigi/WireImage)

Biden Provokes Frustration by Sidestepping Rep. Fudge for USDA, Treating HUD as 'Consolation Prize'

Tom Vilsack

Sustainable Farming Advocates Warn Biden That Vilsack 'A Very Bad Pick' for Ag Secretary

While nutritious diets, healthy populations, pollution remediation, and even climate change mitigation all depend, at least in part, on soil biodiversity, society is not doing enough to preserve this crucial resource, the U.N. warned. (Photo: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil

Members of the Communist Party of India protest as part of a nationwide strike on November 26, 2020. (Photo: Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

Indian Farmers Continue Historic Protests After 250 Million People Rise Up Against Modi's Neoliberal Policies

a person holds just picked beans

With Just 1% of Farms Controlling 70% of Global Farmland, Study Reveals 'Shocking' Level of Land Inequality

Workers process meat at a Tyson Foods chicken plant. (Photo: Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images)

'This Is Depraved': Tyson Food Managers Accused of Betting on How Many of Their Workers Would Get Covid-19

Convention chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) delivers remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia. (Photo: Paul Morigi/WireImage)

We Want Fudge! Rejecting Corporate Stooge Heitkamp, Progressives Back Ohio Congresswoman for USDA Chief

Scores of progressive groups on Tuesday came out in opposition to President-elect Joe Biden possibly picking former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota as his agriculture secretary. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Citing Her Ties to Agribusiness and Fossil Fuels, 160+ Groups Tell Biden That Heitkamp Is 'Wrong Choice' for USDA

Farmer Richard Zick, an 82 year-old supporter of Biden, stands next to presidential signs on his front lawn on October 9, 2020 in Kingsley, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Biden Given Roadmap to Revitalize Rural America

A red-legged frog sits in a backyard pond in Washington state. The herbicide atrazine, common in the U.S. but banned many other places, is linked to hermaphroditic amphibians as well as various harmful health effects in humans. (Photo: Dan Dzurisin/flickr/cc)

EPA Sued for 'Once Again Putting Corporate Interests Over Public Health or the Environment' by Reapproving Herbicide Atrazine

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Navdanya International

Environmental and Farmers Organizations in Italy Stop Government Attempt to Give Green Light to GMOs and NBTs

Family Farm Action Alliance

Family Farm Action Alliance Releases Toolkit for New Congress to Tackle the Food Monopoly Crisis

WildEarth Guardians

Trump Administration Reissues Grazing Permit to Oregon Arsonist Ranchers

People's Action

People’s Action Statement on Tom Vilsack’s Appointment to Head the USDA

Family Farm Action

Family Farm Action Voices Concern Over Vilsack’s Return to USDA

National Family Farm Coalition

Family Farm Coalition Reacts to Vilsack Nomination

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Ben Lilliston

A Roadmap for the Biden-Harris Administration: Redesigning Farm Systems for the Climate Crisis

Bryce Oates, Jake Davis

Tom Vilsack Is the Reason Urban and Rural Progressives Must Unite to Fight Corporate Agribusiness Control Over Democracy

Arshad M. Khan

Food Fight in India Becomes a Matter of Life and Death

Jim Hightower, Jane Kleeb

Make USDA 'The People’s Department' Again

Jim Hightower

Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?

Tara Ritter

Why Agricultural Carbon Offsets Can't Play a Role in International Climate Action

Krissy Kasserman, Amanda Claire Starbuck

As We're Giving Thanks, Let's Resolve to Change Our Food System for the Better

Kari Hamerschlag, Christopher D. Cook

Biden’s Agriculture Secretary: Heitkamp Is the Wrong Choice

Ben Lilliston

After Trump’s Payouts Are Gone, What Happens to Farmers?

John Lynch

Global Food System Emissions Alone Threaten Warming Beyond 1.5°C—But We Can Act Now To Stop It