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As migration routes shift, so do deaths • Local and state responders are scrambling to keep up.
‘We don’t want a negative headline’ • How communications from public officials downplay the danger of PFAS-contaminated water.
Nocturne
Saving the Pacific lamprey • Documenting populations of the ancient fish is a step toward ensuring their survival.
Can affordable housing for Indigenous communities work? • The question looms large as Denver breaks ground on its first affordable housing project for Indigenous people.
Highways of hazard • America’s car culture kills people and wrecks communities.
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A new digital us
Faces like Mirrors • Lesbians who showed the way.
Regeneration Underground • The seeds we need to power ecological restoration may already be present, hiding just below the surface.
Taken by the wind • Issei poetry between the world wars.
Radical faeries • How a gathering of gay men in the Sonoran Desert started a worldwide movement rooted in nature.
Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.
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