Flooded fields offer food and habitat for sandhill cranes, egrets and other species. But changing crop choices and rising temperatures are a growing threat.
Inside Climate News, Dec. 6, 2020
Category: Featured stories
The Harmful Chemical Lurking in Your Children’s Toys
A scientist tracks the dangers of flame retardants, meant to protect children, and why manufacturers cannot seem to stop using them.
New York Times, Nov. 24, 2020
These Everyday Toxins May Be Hurting Pregnant Women and Their Babies
PFAS, industrial chemicals used to waterproof jackets and grease-proof fast-food containers, may disrupt pregnancy with lasting effects.
New York Times, Sept. 23, 2020
This Chemical Can Impair Fertility, but It’s Hard to Avoid
Hormone-disrupting phthalates can be found in everything from plastics and household goods to personal care products. Studies have shown they may be harmful to women’s reproductive systems.
New York Times, Aug. 25, 2020
As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers
In Monterey County, growers and worker advocates join forces with researchers, doctors and public officials.
FERN/Univision, July 7, 2020
Farmworkers at Driscoll’s supplier demand fair pay, safe conditions amid pandemic
Strawberry pickers strike for a 10-cent-a-box raise. Instead of meeting with the workers, the grower calls the sheriff’s department.
FERN, May 28, 2020
In California’s farmworker towns, coronavirus forces a scramble for safe drinking water
With stores rationing bottled water, some 1 million residents whose tap water is tainted with agricultural pollutants confront the state’s failure to solve the problem
FERN, April 22, 2020
Tipped Restaurant Workers Were Already Hanging By a Thread. What Now?
“We’ve been overwhelmed with the desperation.”
Mother Jones/FERN, April 4, 2020
Migrant Farmworkers Feed America — And They’re At High Risk For A Coronavirus Outbreak
Living in crowded dorms with no space to quarantine the sick, farm laborers are “petrified.”
HuffPost/FERN, March 26, 2020
Traumatised by the Cure
Survivors of life-threatening illness can be left in profound fear and distress. Are they suffering from a form of PTSD?
Aeon, March 3, 2020