Across the state’s heartland, communities such as Indiantown are weighing proposals for hyperscale data centers. The massive facilities would reshape Florida’s rural lands.

By Amy Green

INDIANTOWN, Fla.—Carroll McAllister frets over the prospect of a hyperscale data center opening next to the grassy expanse where she grew up, in a shack her father built.

In Florida, an Agricultural Town in Need of an Economic Boost Eyes Hyperscale Data Centers

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental groups see the technology driving an expansion of large-scale animal farming operations.

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the end of the year.

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

The population has plummeted over the past seven years as climate change triggers mass starvation in warming Arctic waters.

By Blaine Harden

SEATTLE—Exceptionally skinny gray whales—enfeebled by starvation and mangled by blunt-force trauma—are washing up this spring along the coast of Washington state in numbers that alarm marine-mammal scientists.

Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’