Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Kathy Lenniger was running her dogsled team one day along her usual route in Fairbanks, Alaska, when she suddenly splashed into overflow, fresh water spilling on top of the snow. Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.”

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

If you don’t know what ails the place, it might be hard to pinpoint the problem. We’re standing 10 feet below sea level,” Bryan Brock, an engineer with California’s Department of Water Resources, told me during a visit in May. And that’s a problem.”. The island, in the Sacramento Delta, is roughly 16 square miles.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For Black History Month, we spoke with Pastor Ezra Tillman of the First Trinity Baptist Church in Flint, Michigan, to discuss the Flint water crisis, the intersection of faith and advocacy and environmental justice. Can you share a little bit about yourself – where you grew up and how you ended up in Flint at First Trinity?

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Jigar Shah

MAY 21, 2019

The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern. Here’s How That Can Impact Climate Change, Too Recently, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler commented that combating climate change wasn’t his top environmental concern ; rather, he wanted to focus on the lack of clean drinking water plaguing towns across the country.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 21, 2019

The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern. Here’s How That Can Impact Climate Change, Too Recently, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler commented that combating climate change wasn’t his top environmental concern ; rather, he wanted to focus on the lack of clean drinking water plaguing towns across the country.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

They stretched a measuring tape across the water and began taking readings. One of the students, Shannon Speir, held a metal rod with a bulb on the end where the ankle-deep water met waist-high grass. Matt Trentman measures the amount of water flowing out of an agricultural drainage pipe that empties into the Shatto ditch.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. But it doesn’t seem like that is what happened,” Hunkler said.

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