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Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns
Los motivos ocultos de la prosperidad de Bozeman
El auge económico de una de las ciudades estadounidenses con mayor crecimiento depende del trabajo de un grupo vulnerable de personas.
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Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine
The Oregon activists call attention to ongoing clearcuts in old-growth forests.
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Meet the women fighting to end detention and deportation in Washington
La Resistencia is working alongside people in immigrant detention to shut down the Northwest Detention Center.
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Conozca a las mujeres que luchan por acabar con las detenciones y las deportaciones en el estado de Washington
La Resistencia, un grupo de base en el noroeste del Pacifico, trabaja junto a personas detenidas para cerrar el Centro de Detención del Noroeste.
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California’s transgender Latinx people find refuge and empowerment in community
‘We are beginning to have that safety that we always desired.’
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Who are the real Black superheroes?
A photo exhibition captures the courage of Mamie Till surrounding the lynching of her son, Emmett Till.
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Fighting climate change by fighting racism
Hop Hopkins, the new executive director of WildEarth Guardians, explains how the two movements are connected.
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What rural homelessness looks like
The lessons learned after spending months embedded with unhoused communities in Oregon.
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground
An ode to lesbians who showed the way
The photography series ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ highlights women who serve as a model for others.
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Fund conservation as you drive
Colorado’s new wolf-themed specialty license plate joins a regional menagerie of critter-themed plates.
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First direct cash assistance program exclusively for Indigenous parents launched
The Nest, a Washington nonprofit program, seeks to serve Native people during and after pregnancy.
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What are the real impacts on Burning Man’s playa?
Viral attention on Black Rock City’s annual festival highlight environmental consequences.
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Fossil-fuel sabotage comes to Hollywood
The director of ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ discusses the value of popular media for environmental ends and whether destroying pipelines is an act of self-defense.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2023: The Reveal
LDS environmentalists want their institution to address the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
Advocates call for healing the rift between scripture and politics.
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How a volunteer trash pickup club tackles housing and climate justice
LA’s Echo Park Trash Club supports its unhoused neighbors by helping them stay in place.
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Utah’s youth climate activists held a funeral for the Great Salt Lake
‘Even though we’re the ones speaking up, the only landscape we know is something dead.’
Posted inSeptember 1, 2022: Going Under
Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
Number one: Why are Indians spray-painting my Starbucks?
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
Western courts grapple with climate change
Rocky Mountain teens sue over fossil fuel-friendly policies.
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Searching for the lost: The people called to find missing migrants
Many Aguilas del Desierto volunteers once crossed the dangerous desert in the Borderlands themselves.