Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean ha[ve] rendered olive oil scarcer than it had been in recent memory,” writes Lauren Markham, and as prices have risen, so have thefts. “Thieves have ...

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By Brent Cunningham Yesterday we took you to the Gulf Coast with a story about the latest struggles of the iconic redfish. Today we have a new piece, published in partnership with ...

By Theodore Ross My upbringing was, geographically speaking, a little unusual. I spent my childhood moving back and forth between New York City and Gulfport, Mississippi, my father in the North and ...

Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest between… ...

One of our new priorities at FERN is something we’re calling the “multiformat strategy.” It’s a philosophy for getting the best journalism on food and the environment to the most people… ...

On a mid-August Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

In May of 2024, the owners of Mary Mahoney’s, an institution in Biloxi, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling more than 29 tons of fish between December 2013 and November 2019, claiming ...

The chemical industry is big business in Louisiana. Companies here manufacture plastics, fuels, pesticides, and cleaning products. But one part of the chemical industry that’s often overlooked is the… ...

Derek and Allison Hadfield became more and more fed up whenever they shopped for their family of four at their local Kroger grocery in Belpre, Ohio, a town of about 6,600 across the Ohio River from… ...

In one of the nation's chicken-producing hubs, immigrant workers say their employers offer Band-Aids, ice, and ibuprofen for injuries that are often life-altering Alex Paul, a Haitian immigrant and ...

Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of wheat, hay and ...