This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer. The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal ...

By Zachary T. Sampson, Shreya Vuttaluru and Bethany Barnes Times Staff Writers Dec. 17, 2025 When they arrived in Longboat Key this February, Carol Leone and her family were excited for two weeks of ...

Data centers have proliferated across Oregon over the last 15 years, but their water usage is creating additional problems ...

Owners of a large Addison County dairy farm already found liable for polluting a neighbor’s land want to expand, raising concerns that increased runoff could damage a public water supply and worsen ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

With swelling demand straining its antique wastewater infrastructure, it’s no wonder Fort Myers has water pollution problems. Fecal bacteria in its creeks, fountains "of raw sewage”, dirty ...

A journalist and a farmer visit three fields with different styles of cultivation — conventional, organic and no-till — to bury cotton underwear in each. Though this sounds like the beginning of a bad ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...