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Virginia Gewin is a freelance science journalist who covers how humans are profoundly altering the environment – from climate change to biodiversity loss – and undertaking extraordinary endeavors to preserve nature. Her work has appeared in Nature, Popular Science, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, bioGraphic, Discover, Science, Washington Post, Civil Eats, Ensia, Yale e360, Modern Farmer, Portland Monthly and many others.

Is There Enough Evidence of Health Risks for the EPA to Ban Paraquat?

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February 12, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: skyhobo/Getty Images)

Farm Runoff May Be Tied to Respiratory Illness Near the Salton Sea

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December 9, 2024

MECCA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 12: An aerial view of agricultural fields with the shrinking Salton Sea in the distance on July 12, 2022 near Mecca, California. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 97 percent of the state of California's land area is in at least severe drought status, with nearly 60 percent in at least extreme drought. California is now in a third consecutive year of drought amid a climate-change fueled megadrought in the Southwestern United States. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Tracking Tire Plastics—and Chemicals—From Road to Plate

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July 16, 2024

California Farm Counties Are Not Even Close to Meeting the EPA’s New Clean Air Quality Standard

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March 5, 2024

A tractor in california is kicking up dust working in the fields, adding particulate matter to the air and lowering air quality

As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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July 17, 2023

Salton Sea area of Imperial County, California, with farmland and the farm towns of Niland, Brawley, Westmorland, and others. (Photo credit: Raquel Lonas, Getty Images)

Supreme Court Case Could Reshape Indigenous Water Rights in the Southwest

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March 15, 2023

A close-up view of center-pivot irrigation watering corn on NAPI farmland. (Photo courtesy of NAPI)

New Mexico Farmers Face a Choice: Pray for Rain or Get Paid Not to Plant

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November 8, 2022

Glen Duggins farms chiles and alfalfa in Socorro, New Mexico. (Photo credit: Virginia Gewen)

Leaving Some Farmland Fallow Benefits the Air We Breathe

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November 2, 2022

Iowa prairie landscape

A Wild, Windy Spring Is Creating a Soil Erosion Nightmare for Farmers

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June 6, 2022

A derecho approaches Kurt Stiefvater's farm in Salem, South Dakota. (Photo credit: Kurt Stiefvater)

How Corn Ethanol for Biofuel Fed Climate Change

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February 14, 2022

Harvesting corn at Estrem Farms in Nerstrand, Minnesota.
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