Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Ja’Morius Mitchell, 18, was reported missing near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later found dead in a burning sugar cane field, deputies said. Screengrab from the Plaquemine Police Department's Facebook ...

As members of the Physicians for Social Responsibility Florida Chapter, we, a collective of medical professionals, earnestly call upon the Palm Beach County Department of Health to address the urgent ...

PUUNENE — Fermin Domingo points his gas blowtorch out the window of his dusty red truck and ignites the dried sugar cane. He then methodically drives 20 feet to light another stack of cane, then ...