Jennie Durant is a bee researcher and author of "Bitter Honey: Big Ag's Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save them" Her new book looks at one factor that may be hurting bees and how new laws could protect these pollinators. In Columbia, Maryland, Janet Crouch's garden is in full bloom. The Crouches received a cease-and-desist notice from the HOA. They were given ten days to tear out their garden and face legal action.

JBS is planning to build a $2.5 billion industrial beef operation in Nigeria, its first foray into Africa in 2024. Environmental groups are concerned about the lack of transparency from JBS and the Nigerian government. Greenpeace International sent a letter to JBS alleging that the company is in violation of Dutch law and that its expansion into Nigeria could cause further climate, environmental and human rights damage.

Since 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA have reported a series of E. coli outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce. The earliest outbreaks the CDC and FDA reported as standalone, romaine-specific investigations date to 2010 (O145 / Freshway) and 2011 (O157:H7 / St. Louis). Before roughly 2010, the agencies did not publish individual produce-outbreak notices in the web format adopted later. The modern record frames the modern record as 28 STEC outbreaks with a confirmed or suspected link to leafy greens between 2009 and 2017.

The price of tomatoes in the USA is 40 percent higher than a year ago. The price of coffee rose by 18.5 percent and frozen fish and seafood became 12 percent more expensive. The USA withdrew from an agreement that allowed duty-free imports of tomatoes from Mexico. In late winter and early spring there were more imports and tomatoes were subject to tariffs of 17%.

Raquel Lía Chan, 66, is a biotechnologist from Santa Fe, Argentina. She has been recognized with the L’Oréal-UNESCO International Award for modifying wheat and soybean with a sunflower gene adapted to water stress. She and her team from the Litoral Institute of Agrobiotechnology developed GMO seeds to combat drought.

A child ate beef kofta at The Kebab shop on Los Feliz Boulevard on April 1. Two days later, he developed symptoms consistent with E. coli infection, including nausea, vomiting, severe fatigue and bloody diarrhea. On April 6, he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome, a life-threatening blood vessel condition. He required dialysis and blood transfusions and suffered seizures and decreased pancreatic function. The whole genome sequencing linked his illness to the outbreak strain associated with Theebab Shop. The company is cooperating with public health officials and has voluntarily stopped sales of grilled meat at all locations since May 18.

Jackie Onsurez saw a geyser of toxic oilfield wastewater spewing from a pipe at a site operated by NGL Energy Partners in southeast New Mexico. He called 911, the New Mexico Environment Department and others and was at the site for about a half hour. The fire department cordoned off the area and NGL representatives arrived and shut off the shooting water.

A mouse plague is terrorising farmers across large swathes of Australia. The rodents are ravaging fields of grain. Farmers are already under pressure from unpredictable fuel and fertiliser supplies due to the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. Geoff Cosgrove, 43, runs a 14,000-hectare farm in Mingenew, Western Australia. He's been farming for 25 years and he's only had to bait twice.