From orcas with salmon hats to the resurrection of the mammoths — this year in animal news

Live Science 12/27 1:16A hannah.osborne@futurenet.com (Ha

There's been a lot going on in animal news this year. Perhaps the best animal story of 2024 came right at the end of the year, when orcas ( Orcinus orca ) started wearing salmon hats again after a 37-year hiatus from the fabulous fad. And while...

Our Best Community Food Solutions Stories of 2024

Civil Eats 12/26 9:00P The Civil Eats Editors

Over our nearly 16 years of covering the U.S. food system, we ve seen firsthand how complex, often sobering stories about challenges in food and farming come to life when they include real people...

Our Best Food Justice Reporting of 2024

Civil Eats 12/25 9:00P The Civil Eats Editors

Civil Eats has focused on food justice since our inception in 2009. Rare for the media landscape, we regularly report on the food system s disproportionate impact on people of color and immigrant...

15 stunning nature photos from 2024

Live Science 12/23 6:00P elise.poore@futurenet.com (Elise

Nature has an unparalleled ability to inspire, awe and humble us, and 2024 was no exception. From haunting underwater whale graves to jaw-dropping images of predators catching their prey, here are the most stunning nature photos captured in 2024....

How does E. coli get into food?

Live Science 12/22 10:00P

Each year, Escherichia coli , or E. coli , causes about 265,000 infections and 100 deaths in the United States. Many of those infections result in foodborne illness. Notably, E. coli contamination has historically caused large and notable food...

Our Best Climate Reporting of 2024

Civil Eats 12/22 9:00P The Civil Eats Editors

Droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding brought on by climate change all have a massive impact on the food system. Farmers are having to adjust what they grow and how they grow it,...

Comment: In Package to Avert Government Shutdown, Congress Picks Winners and Losers in Farm Country

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 12/21 8:21A Michael Lavender

For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Comment: In Package to Avert Government Shutdown, Congress Picks Winners and Losers in Farm Country Washington, DC, December 21,...

Why Are Pesticide Companies Fighting State Laws to Address PFAS?

Civil Eats 12/17 9:00P Lisa Held

What Our Investigation Revealed Several states are trying to phase out the use of pesticides containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), long-lasting chemicals linked to serious health...

Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats 12/16 9:00P Nicole J. Caruth

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Reflecting on her journey to the South, the entrepreneur...

An Artisan Bakery in Buffalo Reimagines Wonder Bread

Civil Eats 12/15 9:00P Adam Reiner

While most Buffalonians are fast asleep, Stephen Horton of Miller’s Thumb Bakery begins milling fresh flour at 3:30 a.m. every morning. For the next two hours, he carefully feeds beadlike kernels of...

'Medicine needed an alternative': How the 'phage whisperer' aims to replace antibiotics with...

Live Science 12/11 5:00A

The first antibiotics made once-deadly infections curable, and their early developers were lauded with a Nobel . But these miracle drugs soon revealed their Achilles heel: When antibiotics are overused, they grow less effective as the bacteria...

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats 12/9 9:00P Christina Cooke

This story was published recently by  The Bitter Southerner  magazine, in  print  and  online . In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road...

A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

Civil Eats 12/3 9:00P Lisa Held

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast...

A Memoir of Communal Living Celebrates Families, Relationships, and Food

Civil Eats 11/25 9:00P Amy Halloran

In the first chapter of her book Group Living and Other Recipes , author Lola Milholland writes about coming home from elementary school to discover that her parents had given her bedroom to three...

Restoring a Cornerstone of the Local Grain Economy

Civil Eats 11/19 9:00P Daniel Walton

Two hefty, 7-foot-tall machines stand in a corner of the airy, white-walled Carolina Ground warehouse in Hendersonville, North Carolina. One framed in light pine wood, the other in gleaming stainless...