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  • Activist brings diversity to green orgs

    Activist brings diversity to green orgs

    Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity & the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.

    by Terri Hansen, Dec 23, 2010
  • Urban habitat

    Urban habitat

    The ups and downs of an Audubon nature center in the middle of low-income urban L.A.

    by Cally Carswell, May 04, 2010
  • Into the wild

    Into the wild

    Rue Mapp's group Outdoor Afro encourages black people to explore nature and learn about things like bird-watching.

    by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jun 24, 2010
  • The life and death of Desert Rock

    The life and death of Desert Rock

    The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.

    by Laura Paskus, Aug 13, 2010
  • Old West versus New West in Taos, N.M.

    Old West versus New West in Taos, N.M.

    When wandering newcomers and deep-rooted old-timers collide in the West, it gets difficult, especially in a place as culturally complex as northern New Mexico.

    by Ray Ring , Aug 19, 2012

  • Bad moon rising

    Back in the '70s, Montana led the way in progressive environmental legislation, but now with its economy faltering, those laws are being eviscerated, and environmentalists need to find a new strategy.

    by Ray Ring, Dec 17, 2001

  • Coal’s other mess

    Even as the air over power plants clears, the coal combustion waste on the ground gets worse – and the EPA seems disinclined to deal with the problem.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Nov 26, 2007

  • Tireless and tenacious storytelling

    Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits, the Sho-Ban News

    by Ray Ring, Dec 24, 2007

  • On Cancer’s Trail

    The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to do with it.

    by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008

  • A mine falls, and a tribe may get the shaft

    Part of the price of stopping the planned New World Mine near Yellowstone may turn out to be the development of coal reserves along Otter Creek, next to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation

    by Ray Ring and Bob Struckman, Jan 20, 2003
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