By Theodore Ross The second episode of Buzzkill, our new podcast on the pollinator crisis, is available now and unravels the mystery of the mass die-off of a researcher’s bees in Meade, Nebraska.

By Theodore Ross JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, and was struggling to find them.

“At 3 a.m., I bolted awake, clutching a cold, wet towel to my abdomen: my ‘liver wrap,’ applied at bedtime per the instructions on my printed schedule. A faint signal like a just-rung bell — the ...