By Brent Cunningham Elliott Woods, a longtime FERN contributor, spent nearly two and a half years reporting and writing two ...

Last month, with great fanfare, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the new dietary guidelines for Americans. The advice was ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal ...

Shortly after Gustavo started working as a sheepherder in Cokeville, Wyoming, he says his boss took his passport. Over the ...

By Theodore Ross Last Friday, we published the latest installment in FERN’s “Trouble on the line” special series that documents the challenges, struggles — and in this ...

“My dad and I have accidentally found ourselves in the funeral-catering business. In many ways, it is the perfect gig for my father, a retired chef with a penchant for gossiping over an afternoon pint ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these ...

When we released this story, as a podcast and text feature, back in February, President Trump was threatening to rescind Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for more than 200,000 Haitians working in the ...

The sinking of the Gulf Livestock 1 was an existential moment for farm animal exporters. Some of those lessons are being forgotten. Australian Livestock are channelled from cattle trucks, onto the ...

Assume for a moment that our Earth is a bubble, containing finite physical material, moisture and the solar energy that’s delivered to us each day. Anything organic is ultimately food for something ...

Against a vast wash of sagebrush and volcanic rock in Utah’s West Desert, Chris Merritt, an archaeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office, took me on a tour of the old Transcontinental ...

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