Articles by Staff Writer Ayurella Horn-Muller
Ayurella Horn-Muller is a staff writer at Grist, where she covers food and agriculture. Prior to that, she reported for Axios and Climate Central, and produced broadcast news at WPLG. Her reporting has won multiple honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Green Eyeshade Awards and she has completed media fellowships with the Society of Environmental Journalists, Metcalf Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Oregon State University. She is the author of Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South.
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With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock
The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.
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To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes.
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The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger
Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
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Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.