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Mother River

By J. C. Lee, Illustrations by Victoria Rose Richards

September 11, 2023

What the Monongahela Taught Me

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Hanford’s B Reactor, now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Even though most of the site is now deemed safe for the public, warning signs for radiological hazards are reminders that the effects of decades of contamination have not disappeared. Photography by Sean McDermott.

Cold War, Hot Mess

By Lois Parshley, Photography by Sean McDermott

Fall 2021

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

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Photography by Alicja Wróblewska

Strange Gardens

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Alicja Wróblewska

Fall 2021

What is beauty for? What is its source? Polish artist Alicja Wróblewska thinks about such things as she fashions fanciful sculptures, snaps photographs, and creates collages both analog and digital to explore the impact of plastics on ocean health.

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This Land Is Our Land

By Emily Ding

Summer 2019


This time, it begins after dark. There’s a solemnity that was absent from the previous day’s rituals, which I had witnessed when the sky was still light. “This time, we have to be serious. We can’t be jokey-jokey,” says Syafiq Dendi Abdullah, a twenty-six-year-old shaman and an activist- leader of Malaysia’s indigenous Temiar community.

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Jharia Burning

By Allison Joyce, Photography by Allison Joyce

Fall 2010

At the center of Dhanbad City, in the Jharia region of northeastern India, amid a handful of concrete buildings, stands the enormous bronze statue of a coal miner. He is shirtless, muscular, and handsome. He strides doggedly forward, a mining helmet on his head, a pickax slung over his shoulder. The message is clear: Coal is my life.

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The Pit

By Nathaniel Miller

Fall 2010

In Montana, you need not go far in search of wounds. The place is rife with them. All you have to do is look between the familiar postcards of The Last Best Place and you’ll see them: slick, deforested hillsides connecting at sharp angles in a quilt-pattern over every national forest; dams holding back decades of poisonous sludge, buried deep in some of the biggest waterways; trees cracking and listing in burns that are bigger than certain East Coast states; vast pits of toxic mineral water sidling right up to the highway.

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