Sugarcane

Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby.

Particle pollution from sugar cane burning can cross the blood brain barrier and lead to brain inflammation.

The federal fight against the soot and ash from pre-harvest sugarcane burns has ended — for now.

For residents of the Glades, a string of poor, predominantly African American rural towns dotting the southern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, the…

South Florida water managers dove into Everglades restoration in back to back meetings this week.

Steve Messam describes his city, Belle Glade, as having two main exports: "Sugar," he said, "and wide receivers." Local lore has it that National...

Florida is the nation’s largest producer of sugar cane, responsible for half of the country’s crop. Sugar’s environmental impact here is bitterly...

University of Florida researchers are working to cure a sugarcane virus.