Aquaculture is critical for feeding a hungry planet, but it does not need to be as reckless as it is today.

Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented. Factory farms will make devastating storms and flooding even worse. Predictions for this year's hurricane season are unprecedented.

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more ...

Peter Singer has been called one of the most influential — and controversial — philosophers alive today. His pioneering work Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, which vividly ...

In recent years, researchers have begun using satellite imaging to detect methane plumes from factory farms — but the picture ...

From pollution to climate emissions, new research details how factory farms are failing Iowa. Industry “fixes” will only dig a deeper hole. From pollution to climate emissions, new research details ...

Colorado has strict requirements to protect water supplies from the impacts of factory farms, but a new lawsuit claims the state is failing at this important task because of a fatal flaw in its ...

The California-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) just published an interactive map and database of the 1300+ largest factory farms in California, sharing exactly where these ...

Factory farms are a hot-button topic in Wisconsin, a state that was once home to thousands of small family farms. The large-scale animal operations, which can produce milk, beef, chicken, turkeys and ...

About 6.8 million. That was the number of farms in the U.S. at their peak in 1935. Today, the number is 1.9 million, a bit over a quarter of that high. Yet when it comes to farm-raised meat, the ...

In one version of the future, we will look back in horror at how we raised animals for food and are grateful for our generation who turned the tide. But in another, we will be eating and exploiting ...

A new online tool maps out the locations of California’s 1,300 largest factory farms and lets people know where and how animals from their favorite brands are raised. The database at FactoryFarmWatch.