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environmental disaster

A foreboding, dark sky over a flooded highway
Posted inStory

Great American Wasteland

by Lauren Stroh March 8, 2022October 19, 2022

I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Can Japan Break Its Addiction to Disposable Packaging?

by Aaron Gilbreath January 27, 2020October 19, 2022

One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world pays a high ecological price for its many culinary conveniences.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

How To Destroy Texas While Helping The Coal Economy

by Aaron Gilbreath November 8, 2019October 19, 2022

A three-part collaboration exposes the state of Texas’ willingness to violate federal law for the sake of the coal industry.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Tale of Dirty, Old, Leaky Zalinski

by Sari Botton September 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Larry Pynn tells the story of United States Army transport ship Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski, one of thousands of ship wrecks under the sea leaking oil, contaminating our waters.

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Big Problems and Big Paychecks in West Texas Oil Country

by Aaron Gilbreath June 4, 2019October 19, 2022

As the current oil boom attests. West Texas’ oil deposits come with high social and environmental costs.

Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

No Heart, No Moon

by Matt Jones April 23, 2019October 19, 2022

How humanity eats the future to feed the present.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Difficult Case for Assisted Plant Migration

by Aaron Gilbreath April 22, 2019October 19, 2022

To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?

Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

When the Climate Change Story Becomes Your Life Story

by Aaron Gilbreath April 5, 2019October 19, 2022

Moving from bustling, expensive Seattle to tiny Ashland, Oregon seemed like an improvement, until the forest fire season began.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Toxic Legacy of Building 606

by Aaron Gilbreath August 1, 2018October 19, 2022

The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes

Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet

by Aaron Gilbreath March 8, 2018October 19, 2022

How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?

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