Once voted the UK's favorite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary—150 miles through an officially recognized "national landscape." But this idyllic picture is ...

Industrial chicken farming—whether for meat or egg production—is notoriously inhumane. Chickens raised for meat live in crowded, windowless barns, induced into a state of semi-torpor, while those ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. These 500-foot-long chicken houses, which sit off of Jarman Road near the small town of ...

The North Santiam River has carved a steep embankment into the land at the back of Christina Eastman’s family farm east of Salem. She keeps a grill on a grassy patch high above the water’s edge for ...

The near-total replacement of heritage breeds like Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red with fast-growing hybrids is the single biggest driver of the flavor change in commercial chicken. A ...