Just as the air dries, the wind turns east and sugar ... burning cane in Pahokee, Florida. Debra Jones, like the rest of her family, suffers from asthma. When she first saw the black snow from ...

Former Pahokee Mayor Colin Walkes responds to an op-ed by the authors of a study that found sugar cane burning did not create ...

Deaths in South Florida: Sugar cane fire pollution kills up to three South Floridians yearly, study finds Black Snow reporting: The first 2 parts of the Black Snow sugar cane burning series ...

White granulated sugar can be made either from sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) or sugar beets. Cane sugar is the type made from sugarcane. The sucrose molecules in both types of sugar are ...

Black snow, as the ash is known ... as planned burns are carried out in thousands of acres of sugar cane fields to help the crops. People who live around the south shore of Lake Okeechobee ...

The snow acted as an insulator, said LSU AgCenter sugar cane specialist Kenneth Gravois. That insulating layer kept the ground from dropping below freezing and damaging the cane's root system.