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Despite Declining U.S. Pesticide Use, Toxicity to Bees Doubled in a Decade: Study

A protester holds dead bees prior to the annual shareholders meeting of German chemicals and pharmaceuticals conglomerate Bayer AG on April 26, 2019 in Bonn, Germany.

'We're Destroying Our Life-Support Systems': Study Suggests the Amazon Now Contributes to Warming

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Aerial view shows smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre, a city in Amazonas State, in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on August 24, 2019. (Photo: Lula Sampaio/AFP/Getty Images)

"CO2 is not a lone actor. When you consider the whole cast of other characters, the outlook in the Amazon is that the impacts of human activities will be worse than we realize."

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'Frightening' New Data Shows Humanity Has Degraded or Destroyed Two-Thirds of World's Rainforest

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A fire burns trees next to grazing land in the Amazon basin in Ze Doca, Brazil. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"We need to stop destroying forests and other nature, for the sake of our...

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Report Finds Biden Can Potentially Freeze Dozens of Trump's Last-Minute 'Egregious and Damaging' Rollbacks

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new Cabinet nominations at the Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Trump's sloppiness and incompetence has created an opening to undo some of the...

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday opposed the confirmation of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. (Photos: Chip Somodevilla and Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Citing Concerns About Corporate Power, Bernie Sanders Votes Against Biden's Choice for USDA Chief

This aerial photo shows a large swathe of Indonesian rainforest destroyed by deforestation in service of palm oil plantations on Borneo. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

UN Head Decries 'Senseless and Suicidal' Destruction of Nature as New Report Urges Systemic Solutions

Protesters in Mexico City on May 19, 2018 call for Monsanto to get out of Mexican agriculture. (Photo: Jesus Alvarado/dpa via Getty Images)

Emails Reveal US Officials Joined With Agrochemical Giant Bayer to Stop Mexico's Glyphosate Ban

Gift of the Givers distribute food parcels on January 27, 2021 in Touws River, South Africa. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown restrictions, a reported 93% of the local population is unemployed. (Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

'More Challenging This Year Than Last': UN Envoy Warns Global Food Crisis Getting Worse, Not Better

Activists belonging to various human rights organizations hold placards as they stage a demonstration against the arrest of the activist Disha Ravi by Delhi Police for her alleged involvement in the instigation of violence during the farmers' protest in Bangalore, India on February 15, 2021. (Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images)

#ReleaseDishaRavi: Global Outrage After India Arrests Climate Activist Over Farmer Protest Toolkit Shared by Greta Thunberg

Then-U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testifies during a hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee September 21, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Groups Launch Grassroots Campaign Urging Senators to Reject Tom 'Mr. Monsanto' Vilsack for USDA Chief

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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Food & Water Watch

In Supreme Court Briefs, Groups Take Aim at Dangerous Act 21 Interpretation

Center for Food Safety

Groups Urge Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Stay with FDA not USDA

Food & Water Watch

Climate and Environmental Justice Groups Call on EPA to Hold Industrial Dairy and Hog Operations Accountable for Pollution

Food & Water Watch

Five Reasons to Reject Tom Vilsack

Food & Water Watch

Groups Call on White House to Enact Merger Moratorium in Food and Agriculture Industries

Center for Food Safety

Coalition Calls for Urgent Action On Livestock Antibiotic Overuse

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Nick Jacobs

Six Months to Prevent a Hostile Takeover of Food Systems, and 25 Years to Transform Them

Tim Thorpe

This Film Will Change Your Mind About the Fishing Industry

Sabrina Ahmed

Plant-Based Diets Can Help Save the Planet

GRAIN

Sustainable Agriculture in the Face of the Climate Crisis: Farmers Leading the Battle in Asia

Ben Lilliston

Factory Farms: New EPA Emissions Data Should Guide Biden on Agriculture and Climate

Sanket Jain

Why India's Farmers—Confronting Corporate Power and Modi's Right-Wing Government—Deserve Global Solidarity

Timothy A. Wise

Mexico's Decision to Ban Glyphosate Has Rocked the Agribusiness World

Jim Hightower

What the Texas Deep Freeze Revealed About Corporate-Run Government

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy

Young Madagascar Farmers Find New Ways to Help Lemurs, Rainforests—and Themselves

John W. Roulac

Making America's Rivers Blue Again: Connecting the Dots Between Regenerative Agriculture and Healthy Waterways