Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Florida's pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of land, the state's department ...

The ash winds up everywhere — it’s in the laundry, on cars and blankets vegetation in backyard gardens. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

One of the world’s biggest sugar companies has been barred from selling in the United States for the past three months. The U.S. imposed the ban on the Central Romana Corporation around Thanksgiving.

Setting fields of sugar cane on fire to burn off the plants’ unused outer layer and facilitate harvesting has been phased out in other countries on evidence that it not only contributes to climate ...