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 ...

The series by The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica on sugar cane burning and the health problems Glades residents are suffering was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most prestigious award ...

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 ...

(Gene McAvoy comments in response to the letter to the editor, "Leadership needed on cane burning," by Deirdre Ruffino, which appeared Nov. 13. Ruffino's letter reacted to a series of investigative ...

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 ...

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 ...

The burning of sugar cane fields in West Baton Rouge Parish started sending ashes into the air and across the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge this week, a phenomenon seen several times since the fall ...

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 ...

The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires has been adopted almost everywhere the crop is grown. Known as "green ...