While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More
Tag: environmental history
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)
Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More
Farmington flatline: The lower Animas River is dry
UPDATE 7/9/2018: The US Geological Survey determined that their gauge was faulty, and that the river did not actually run … More
Dataviz: Life in the Energy Sacrifice Zone
Read my High Country News story about the fight against drilling in the Greater Chaco Region. Shortly after 10 p.m. … More
River of Lost Souls: Weekly excerpt #1
… The capitalists formed the Gold King Mining & Milling Company, and went to work developing the claim, combining it … More
A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell
Beneath the murky green waters on the north end of Lake Powell, entombed within the tons of silt that have … More
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