3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (667+ words) If more people understand what happens to food waste after collection, participation could rise about 65%. Cornwall's food-waste scheme is giving leftovers a second use: they are being turned into electricity and fertilizer instead of being treated as ordinary trash. Council…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (590+ words) The support is expected to reach 19 rural communities in Fresno, Madera, and Tulare counties. New federal support is expected to help a Fresno food bank improve service in rural Central Valley communities, where steady access to fresh food and everyday…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (579+ words) "I'm glad it wasn't some little kid." A Rhode Island man was seriously injured after a potentially rabid raccoon charged him during a trail run in Potter Wood in South Kingstown. John Hixon was left with bites, scratches, and a…...

4+ day, 43+ min ago   (542+ words) The OP's room offered both easy access and a warmer place to shelter. When a homeowner went looking for the source of a noise coming from behind their bedroom dresser, they assumed they would find one of their cats. Instead,…...

4+ day, 58+ min ago   (616+ words) "She found herself a really nice, secure little den." A homeowner who feared a raccoon might be trapped inside a backyard box discovered that the animal had turned the container into a temporary den and was leaving on its own…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (393+ words) "You shouldn't have to work too hard to convince people it's a good thing." A farm in Hadley, Massachusetts, has spent the last several years successfully growing its crops underneath a solar panel array — a practice called "agrivoltaics." John Czajkowski…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (617+ words) For many people, utility insecurity is inseparable from food insecurity. A Mississippi regulator is continuing a push to make basic water service more affordable for low-income households, even after his fellow commissioners declined to support the effort. De'Keither Stamps, the…...

6+ day, 37+ min ago   (379+ words) A Kentucky woman's attempt to do something nice on a hot summer day, buy a meal for an unhoused man sitting outside a McDonald's, became a troubling example of how corporate decisions can hit vulnerable people the hardest. Resident Abby…...

6+ day, 56+ min ago   (578+ words) As NBC News reported, a growing number of restaurants, cafés, and bodegas are turning to cheap artificial intelligence-generated food images for storefront signs and delivery listings, and the results can be bizarre, misleading, and difficult to miss. Customer confusion is…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (378+ words) To qualify as sugar-free under FDA rules, a food must contain less than half a gram of sugar. Companies selling "zero-sugar" drinks and snacks are running into a legal problem as they argue that the sweetener allulose is not actually…...