Mr. Grunwald is a contributing Opinion writer. America’s factory farms generate nearly a trillion pounds of manure every year, and way too much of it ends up in rivers, lakes and estuaries. Animal ...

Since 1972 farms have been perfectly free to discharge into the environment some of the most dangerous chemical compounds known to man. Agriculture is the source of some of the worst and most ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa has a population of more than 3 million people and 23 million hogs, which produce 110 billion ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. More than 1,000 hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...

Michigan EGLE has outlined new provisions for its permitting of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, related to how the large farms handle their animal wastes. CAFOs will now be ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A grim discovery was made in a bizarre place over the weekend. It happened in Dane County, Wisconsin where sheriff’s deputies reported that human remains were found in a manure pit in Sun Prairie on ...

Agricultural workers from Le Syndicat, in the Hautes-Vosges region of eastern France, feared prosecution after they sprayed a mixture of faeces and water across their farmland to push out the invaders ...

WELLINGTON, Fla. — Neighbors have voiced frustrations about a manure operation within Wellington affecting their quality of life, including the noise, smell and effect on their property values. New ...

During planting season in Iowa, Landon Plagge’s fields reek. Sour and earthy, almost like rotten eggs and fermenting hay, the scent repels the unacquainted nose. But Plagge is unbothered. “I’m used to ...

Dutch farms emit too much nitrogen. As targets slip, ecosystems suffer, and EU green goals hang in the balance. Can food production and nature conservation coexist in Europe? The Netherlands is the ...