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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![Brooke Rollins standing in front of a wooden seal of the USDA]()
![Brooke Rollins standing in front of a wooden seal of the USDA]()
The USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence?
The agency pointed to gazebos, massages, and a $20,000 budget for pens to justify the cuts. But the groups that lost funding say those claims don't add up.
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![Sacks of the final batches of yellow peas delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are stacked in a storage room]()
![Sacks of the final batches of yellow peas delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are stacked in a storage room]()
Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.
Researchers are just beginning to understand the human cost of America's retreat from international aid.
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![Protesters gather at the US Supreme Court]()
![Protesters gather at the US Supreme Court]()
The Supreme Court is deciding whether Roundup, America’s most-used herbicide, needs a cancer warning
The ruling could reshape pesticide regulation and test President Trump's base from within.
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![Aerial view of riverbank dwellers carrying banana produce over the dry Solimoes riverbed]()
![Aerial view of riverbank dwellers carrying banana produce over the dry Solimoes riverbed]()
The world is getting too hot to feed itself
A new U.N. report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.
