The Danish government wants to ban a fast-growing breed known as ‘turbo chickens,’ setting up another clash with the farm ...

Brown] box crabs aren’t widely known as seafood. Unlike the more popular Dungeness crabs, which live in the shallows and the intertidal, box crabs can venture 600 meters below the ...

By Brent Cunningham The slow-moving tragedy of whales becoming entangled, often fatally, in the fishing lines used by lobster and crab fishermen gets a fair amount of media coverage.

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

At 7:30 on a clear morning in December 2025, I arrived at the marina in Oxnard, California, in search of Mikey Volaski, one of the only commercial fishers in North America whose operation is dedicated ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

“In a normal midterm cycle, this race, in a bright red state, might be nothing more than a political “Nationwide, nearly half of all active duty military families experienced food insecurity in 2025, ...

One of the biggest fights brewing for control of the Senate is taking place in deep red Nebraska, where an industrial mechanic and Navy veteran named Dan Osborn is trying to turn the backlash against ...

Brooklyn, NY 11238, on November 4, 2026 at 6:30pm. The Food & Environment Reporting Network presents the first live taping in New York City of Forked, our hit podcast on food politics and policy in ...

We dropped two new stories this week that showcase the breadth of FERN’s coverage of the food system. In the first, published with The Guardian, reporter Elliott Woods profiles a food pantry, located ...