Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kim Engelbrecht in ‘The Cane Field Killings' (Channel 4) You need strong nerves to get through Channel 4’s latest crime series, ...
A federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks an as-yet unknown amount of money from a dozen sugar growers over the health effects of burning sugar cane fields, a practice that has been ongoing ...
Rental car companies are being forced to find new homes for their vehicles as travel demand dries up from the spread of COVID-19. On Maui, Hawaii former sugar cane fields had been converted to parking ...
For over 200 years in the United States, sugar cane field burning has been a tool that farmers use in the pre-harvest season to remove the tops of the sugar cane plant. However, the smoke from that ...
TALLAHASSEE --- Florida is setting up an advanced training program for people who oversee prescribed burns, with an emphasis on burns in sugar cane fields, in an effort to reduce smoke in surrounding ...
NEW ORLEANS — Tawny crazy ants are pushing fire ants out of some Louisiana sugar-cane fields — one of the few places people are happy to see fire ants. Entomologists worry that the new invaders could ...
Using a term coined by local meteorologist Steve Browne to describe the haze that dominates the atmosphere over San Antonio each May, the “May Murkies” will soon be upon us. The haze that drifts in ...
LOUISIANA (KLFY) — To the untrained eye, a burned field may look like a wildfire may have passed through it. What you may not realize is that burning the field is part of the sugarcane farming process ...