By Theodore Ross Today marks the release of the sixth and final installment of Buzzkill, FERN’s podcast series on the pollinator crisis. “A Post-Pollinator World,” which was reported by Buzzkill ...

T]the once common idea that the best Texas barbecue comes from long-running small-town operations is increasingly obsolete. In 2003, the Texas legislature declared Lockhart, a small town about ...

In “Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster,” FERN’s latest publishing partnership with The New York Times opinion section, science journalist and FERN contributor Maryn McKenna describes the ...

Since nutrition-facts labeling was first introduced by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 1973, the back of the box has been a controversial space. Countless FDA rule ...

If you want to see the birthplace of America’s ultraprocessed diet, take a drive through the upper Midwest in high summer. Before long, you’ll be hypnotized by the shimmering green blanket of corn and ...

On a plate in front of me are three shrimp: One is wild, one is farmed, and the last one isn’t a shrimp at all. It’s a vegan “shrimp,” one of several brands that have come to market in the last decade ...

A FERN-Inverse special series on ultraprocessed foods — what they are, why they’re everywhere, and what they’re doing to our diet ...

In June 2022, 53 people from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras died in the back of a tractor trailer in San Antonio in what has often been described as the worst immigration-related disaster in U.S.

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

By Theodore Ross On June 27, 2022, 66 undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America climbed into the back of a refrigerated tractor trailer in San Antonio, Texas, having already used ...