This year, reporters at The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica investigated the impact of sugar cane burning in Florida. The harvesting practice helps produce more than half of America’s cane sugar, but ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Palm Beach Post. For years, residents living amid Florida’s sugar fields have complained about pre-harvest ...

Louisiana's agriculture commissioner is asking growers not to burn sugar cane fields until further notice. Mike Strain warns the smoke can mingle with dense fog, which is forecast across Southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires ...

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 ...

Each year, large swaths of Louisiana are engulfed in toxic smoke from post-harvest sugar cane burning. Communities suffer in silence while state leadership looks the other way. Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...

A screening of the Emmy-nominated film "Bittersweet Muck" about sugarcane burning in the Glades will be shown May 31 at the Mandel Library. The film, produced by NBC 6 investigative reporter Sasha ...

We have all seen it. That enormous thick cloud looming over the sugar cane fields. It fills the lush beautiful land with a disturbing haze as it hovers over our homes and hearts. That toxic cloud is ...

Thailand's sugar cane output is expected to increase in the 2024-25 crop year thanks to more rainfall, but farmers face strict screening for harvesting by burning, says the Office of the Cane and ...