U.S. Sugar

Two professors from the C.E. Lynn College of Nursing are leading a team of investigators from four other institutions to evaluate how factors like social isolation and intermittent sugarcane burning affect brain health.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms.

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.

An appeals court Thursday rejected an attempt by federal antitrust officials to block U.S. Sugar Corp. from buying another player in the sugar industry.

An ABC News freelance producer confronted critics of a consulting firm's powerful clients. Her actions confirm people's worst suspicions about the news media, says a former network news president.

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

A lawsuit filed by sugar growers this week claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated a congressional order to protect water supplies and asked a judge to send the reservoir back to the Corps for a new environmental review.

Democratic state Rep. Omari Hardy, who represents north Palm Beach County along the coast, says the particle emissions added in the proposed expansion of the "Right to Farm Act" will negatively impact marginalized communities.

U.S. Sugar Corp. says it would honor a previous agreement putting land south of Lake Okeechobee toward Everglades restoration. U.S. Sugar staunchly has...

Sugar farmers who own land in an area targeted by Senate President Joe Negron for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee said Monday they won't be ...

The U.S. Sugar Corporation could be required to sell land for a water storage plan proposed by Florida Senate President Joe Negron. Senate Bill 10,...

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