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Yanasa TV News How America’s Transmission Boom Collides with Ranch Land and What Trump’s Washington Is (and Isn’t) Changing Rural America is being asked to host the backbone of a new electric era. The question is whether that backbone is being built with ranchers, or on top of them. The orange stake is easy to…
Yanasa TV News Hundreds cut off without warning in Costilla County as officials tighten control — is this drought planning, or something more sinister? In Colorado’s poorest county, hundreds of families awoke this month to a reality many thought belonged only to headlines from distant deserts: their water supply had been shut off; without notice,…
Yanasa TV News How a Century-Old Water Project Left Potter Valley’s Farmers High and Dry in the Name of Saving Salmon A Valley in Shock In early August 2025, farmers and ranchers in Northern California’s Potter Valley woke to the worst possible news: the water that has irrigated their hayfields, vineyards, orchards, and pastures for…
Yanasa TV News Sleeping under the stars with chickens, buffalo, and the wild sounds of Ohio’s quirkiest bison getaway If you’ve ever dreamed of trading in your cubicle for a teepee, your office chair for a covered wagon, and your white noise machine for a symphony of chickens, pea fowl, and bison grunts—you’re in luck….
Yanasa TV News An unprecedented rodent infestation in the Central Valley’s almond belt is spilling toxins into Monterey County’s wild pigs—turning their meat neon blue and exposing a hidden agricultural crisis. In recent months, California’s agricultural and wildlife worlds have collided in an unexpected—and alarming—way. Massive rat infestations across almond orchards in the Central Valley…
Yanasa TV News Colorado’s “Frankenbunnies” revive the jackalope legend as a real virus causes horn-like growths on wild rabbits—merging folklore, science, and rural curiosity. A Folklore Creature Come to Life? For generations, rural Americans have told stories of the jackalope—a mythical jackrabbit with antlers, said to roam the prairies and trick cowboys with its uncanny ability…
Yanasa TV News How One Man’s Fight to Save the Earth Begins With Rethinking Every Decision We Make Most interviews don’t start in the middle of a tropical storm. But when you’re chasing one of the world’s most compelling voices in regenerative agriculture and environmental restoration, you drive through torrential rain, dodge flood warnings, and…
A new academic proposal frames a dangerous meat allergy as a tool for moral engineering — and suggests altering your biology in secret “for your own good.” Yanasa TV News Weaponizing Ticks? Why “Beneficial Bloodsucking” Is Ethically Poisonous A new bioethics paper makes an extraordinary—and deeply disturbing—suggestion: that a dangerous tick-borne allergy could be considered…
Idaho’s canceled Lava Ridge project reveals a global collision between clean energy expansion, working farmland, and the landscapes communities fight to protect. Yanasa TV News A Project Too Big to Ignore In August 2025, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stood before reporters and declared the Lava Ridge Wind Project dead. The 1,000-megawatt, 241-turbine installation, planned…
How Nebraska’s Ranchers Are Fighting to Save Grazing Land—and Their Way of Life—from a Wave of Corporate Solar Expansion Yanasa TV News Tensions Rise as Nebraska Farmland Faces a Solar Invasion Under Nebraska’s broad blue skies, the heart of America’s cattle country is facing a new kind of land rush—not for oil or railways, but…