A screening of the Emmy-nominated film "Bittersweet Muck" about sugarcane burning in the Glades will be shown May 31 at the Mandel Library. The film, produced by NBC 6 investigative reporter Sasha ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

Ja’Morius Mitchell, 18, was reported missing near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later found dead in a burning sugar cane field, deputies said. Screengrab from the Plaquemine Police Department's Facebook ...

Belle Glade, South Bay and Pahokee are tight-knit, predominantly Black and brown communities that endure a grim ritual every sugarcane harvest season — the thick smoke from pre-harvest cane fires ...

They call it “black snow” when the ash from the burning sugar cane rains down on the small communities dotting the south shore of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. From October to April, ash and soot fall ...

Each year, large swaths of Louisiana are engulfed in toxic smoke from post-harvest sugar cane burning. Communities suffer in silence while state leadership looks the other way. Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...

Acre after acre of sugar cane fields in Palm Beach County. (Photo via Florida Sugar Growers Co-op) In 1960, the TV show “The Twilight Zone” aired an irony-soaked episode called “Eye of the Beholder” ...

Louisiana's agriculture commissioner is asking growers not to burn sugar cane fields until further notice. Mike Strain warns the smoke can mingle with dense fog, which is forecast across Southeast ...

A special screening of an Emmy-nominated film, "Bittersweet Muck," about sugarcane burning in the Glades will be shown May 31 at the Mandel Library in West Palm Beach. NBC 6 consumer investigative ...