Rural America

Sorry Sonny: National Forests Are Not Crops

Secretary of Agriculture Perdue has prioritized logging, mining and grazing on the National Forests that shelter many threatened species.

Adam Rissien

Will Bayer Get the Drift on Dicamba?

The agrochemical company has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits alleging its potent herbicide drifts and damages crops.

Dave Dickey

‘People Are Still Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Stop this Pipeline’

A court found that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built unlawfully. These water protectors are still in prison for trying to stop it.

Joseph Bullington

Agricultural Workers Lose Millions of Dollars Each Year to Employer Wage Theft

It’s against U.S. labor laws, but that hasn’t stopped employers from withholding more than $65 million in worker wages over the last two decades.

Pramod Acharya

Animals and Plants Are Relocating Because of Climate Change. Should They Be Considered Invasive?

Jenny Morber

Report: More Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year Than Ever Before

Ashoka Mukpo

Rural Black Lives Matter

After Travon Brown found a cross burning in his yard, he organized a Black Lives Matter march in the rural town of Marion, Va., where hundreds of angry counter-protestors were ready and waiting.

Mason Adams

From Tractors to Phones, Companies Don’t Want You to Repair Stuff. Appalachians Are Fighting Back

Carolina Norman

Between Dwindling Revenue and Rising Virus Cases, Rural Hospitals Face a Reckoning

April Simpson

Bayer Engineered a New Corn Seed That’s Resistant to Five Herbicides. But How Long Will It Work?

Johnathan Hettinger

‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives

Jordan Green

Black People Own Less of the U.S. than 100 Years Ago. A ‘Black Commons’ Could Help Reverse the Trend

Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone

Coronavirus Has Shown that Our Food System Is Broken. Now Is the Time to Make It More Resilient

Emma Burnett and Luke Owen

Global Agribusiness is Devouring the World’s Last Forests. We Need Local Food Systems, Now.

Gaurav Madan

Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent

Stephanie Woodard

Deadly Drift: The Herbicide Dicamba is Damaging Trees Across the Midwest and South

Johnathan Hettinger

‘An Abrupt Wake-Up Call’: Alaska Peers into a Future Without Oil

Yereth Rosen

We Don’t Farm Because It’s Trendy: For Black Folks, Growing Food Has Long Been a Form of Resistance

Ashley Gripper