A survey taken this past spring shows a majority of Iowans say they have experienced negative environmental impacts from ...

Only 2 percent of the ocean appears to benefit substantially from marine conservation areas, challenging a key metric of the ...

Mama Bear allegedly uses misleading branding on Atlantic salmon cubes sourced by Australis Foods, an aquaculture operation ...

While the country’s farms tend to have high animal welfare standards, Bhutan also imports most of its meat.

The livestock industry is a major driver of Iowa’s economy. Animal agriculture is embedded in the history and culture of the state, from rural towns in the Driftless to the pork belt in the Northwest.

Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...

Sentient Media released the tool alongside a survey to address a gap in public awareness about Iowa’s factory farming industry.

Claudia is Sentient's Editorial Fellow. Her background is in science journalism and environmental communications and she ...

Last November, the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, ten months later, the ...

Intensive farming, where animals are kept in close quarters, creates environments that encourage the evolution of harmful bacteria and other pathogens so that they gain traits making it easier to ...

At first glance, Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, New York, looks like most other industrial dairies. There are red buildings that house some 4,000 cows, a staggering manure pit and two ...

A staggering 37 million pounds of frozen chicken and pork products, much of it ready-to-eat, is no longer considered safe for consumption, after being shipped to retailers, including Trader Joe’s, ...