"Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it was closing its largest research campus and radically reorganizing research at the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The moves were controversial because they involved long-distance job transfers that threatened to uproot many scientists and derail research programs. This week, a federal judge declared the plans were likely illegal and ordered a halt until at least 11 December, when the current federal budget runs out."

"For years, economists dismissed collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed."

"As efforts to protect people from extreme heat stall, organizers are embracing an approach that targets major brands’ reputations"

"The high court reversed a California man's victory against Monsanto over the agricultural giant's failure to warn of Roundup's cancerous risks, dooming similar cases in the future."

"California regulators said Friday they intend to designate the widely used weed killer atrazine as a known carcinogen, a move that contrasts with the opinion of federal regulators."

"One of Europe’s biggest aquaculture industries is linked to overfishing, pollution, food insecurity and labor abuses."

"US regulators are illegally withholding records related to the disbanding of a panel set up by the Biden administration to address water pollution from factory farms, according to a lawsuit filed last week."

"New research has revealed more examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s efforts to downplay and deny the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions."

"Simply put, a rain garden is a depressed bed planted with native perennials and shrubs selected for their high-water tolerance. It’s strategically situated in a spot where water — from downspouts, driveways, compacted soil and other sources of runoff — flows downward toward it. That runoff waters the plants and filters pollutants as the soil absorbs it."