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Newspapers in Rural Areas are Folding, Leaving Vast News Deserts

The U.S. has lost more than 2,800 newspapers since 2005, many of them in rural areas. Now some journalists are redoubling their efforts to provide local news and trying new models in a difficult industry.

U.S. Hopes to Build Pipelines for Carbon Capture. Landowners Don’t Want Them

Thousands of miles of oil and natural gas pipelines already crisscross the country. Now, many more are being proposed to carry things like hydrogen and carbon dioxide as ways to combat climate change.

As Ogallala Aquifer Declines in the Great Plains, States Weigh Metering Irrigation Wells

About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.

Poor Regulatory Safeguards Leave Farmworkers Suffocating in the Face of Increasing Heat Waves

A fifth of reported heat-related deaths between 2017 and 2022 were agricultural workers, according to OSHA data.

Rural America Grew Early in Pandemic, Mostly in Recreational Counties

Remote work opportunities could have contributed to more people moving to scenic rural destinations

Waffles, Not Pancakes: Local Farmer’s Invention Could Improve Crop Yields

As High-Tech Farms Take Hold, Can Farm Towns Hold On?

Without Big Trade Deals, Missouri Farmers Worry They’ll Lose Out

Big Data Is Transforming How Scientists Create Better Seeds

As Bird Flu Strengthens In China, Midwest Farmers Prepare For The Next Outbreak