Results for keyword: pollution
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What should we do with our blink of time?
Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene.
by Stephen Trimble, May 31, 2012 -
A Texas town welcomes dairies; a New Mexico activist fights them
Jana Hughes, of Hobbs, N.M., does not find dairies to be good neighbors. Janet Claborn, of Muleshoe, Texas, has recruited 14 dairies to her town and sees them as an economic development blessing.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Nov 27, 2011 -
Remediating a Superfund sacrifice zone on Montana's Clark Fork river
The town of Opportunity, Mont., is weighed down by pollution from old copper mining and a modern-day river restoration project.
by Brad Tyer, Sep 25, 2011 -
Hope and redemption
The story of the West is a story of the quest for redemption - not just for individuals, but for an entire landscape.
by Jodi Peterson , Sep 18, 2011 -
Crowdsourcing helps tackle environmental injustice in California's Imperial Valley
The Imperial Visions Action Network is an interactive website that involves locals in reporting - and helping solve - environmental problems.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Mar 06, 2011 -
Farming's Toxic Legacy
Long-banned pesticides linger in the soils of neighborhoods built on former agricultural land in central Washington.
by Rebecca Clarren, Dec 13, 2010 -
Backyard poisons?
Soil samples from the yards of two Yakima families showed intriguing but not always comforting results.
by Rebecca Clarren, Dec 05, 2010 -
What lies beneath
When pesticide chemicals were found underneath the houses of Barber Orchard, N.C., it aroused fears nationwide about the risks of building on former agricultural land.
by Sarah Gilman, Dec 05, 2010 -
Oil in the swimming pool
The BP oil spill exemplifies the worst kind of corporate arrogance.
by Jaime O'Neill, Jul 06, 2010 -
Sinclair flare up
The Sinclair, Wyo., oil refinery has long been one of the state's most notorious polluters, but until recently, no one seemed to care.
by Cally Carswell, Apr 23, 2010






