JAFSCD: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Publication of the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems

The fire in the Pine Barrens led to the evacuation of 3,000 residents and the shutdown of a stretch of the Garden State Parkway.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research program and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rule...

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The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.

The president revoked a 1994 directive requiring agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards.

Urban pedestrians are walking faster and doing less socializing, according to a new study of NYC, Boston and Philadelphia. Is technology to blame, or public space itself?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that we spend around 90 % of our time indoors.1 Therefore, it is not difficult to believe that the air we breathe—the indoor air quality—crucially determines our health and can drastically affect our efficiency,...

Edgar McGregor’s timely Eaton Fire alert: ‘Get out!’

Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist

Flood-prone Hoboken, New Jersey, has opened a play area for its youngest residents that doubles as storage for stormwater runoff

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG) invites session sponsorship proposals for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025. The conference will take plac…

An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis.

As the site of several climate-related disasters, the Philippines is hard to ignore when officials advocate for accountability from polluters. The country is pushing for support for nations facing similar climate crises. As the impacts of climate change intensify, vulnerable...

Communities across the UK are fighting ‘catastrophic’ proposals to build new energy-from-waste plants

The measure will seek to raise funds to pay for some of the damage caused by extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent because of the combustion of fossil fuels.

An ‘engineered’ creek comes to life in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant during a record-breaking rainfall.

Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...

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The food system accounts for 15% of global fossil fuel use, but where does that energy really go? In this episode, Matt Eastland speaks with Anna Lappé to break down the invisible dependence of ou...

Using satellite data and literature-derived heuristics, we accurately identified unregulated poultry Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) Advanced data techniques show a significant ove...

A seasonal roundup of book reviews on buildings, landscapes, and cities, featuring titles of interest to Places editors and contributing critics.

Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year.

For almost a century, Vienna has been successfully integrating vibrant social housing into the city. Lloyd Alter finds out how.

From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i...

Sarah Lipson, Veronika Wirtz, and PhD student Molly Hoffman curated the collection of essays written by SPH faculty, staff, and students to destigmatize imperfection and recast the experience of rejec...

Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

Mycofiltration can remove up to 94% of iron (III) and 31% of imidacloprid.