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When oil hits water, both humans and wildlife suffer. | Photo: Chris Clarke
All pipelines leak eventually. When they do, living things downstream are in trouble.
Fernando Cázares | Photo: courtesy Fernando Cázares
You don’t just show up to a community and pretend that you know what the people there need. You listen.
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If your potatoes aren't organic, they were probably grown using this cancer-causing fumigant. 
White person's hands representing environmentalism | Photo: iStock
Environmental groups could be just as diverse as the society they work in. But the groups have to want it first.
Spraying glyphosate on a stubble field | Photo: Chafer Machinery, some rights reserved
The state gets legal clearance to declare that its most commonly used weed killer causes cancer.
Native activists demonstrate for Oak Flat at the U.S. Capitol. | Photo: Wendy Kanin, some rights reserved
Native peoples in the U.S. are often citizens of both the United States and of autonomous Native nations. That makes Native environmental justice issues more complex.
Young people from the Coachella Valley set out on their first backpacking trip in Joshua tree. | Photo: Seth Shteir
If we're counting on future generations to protect our desert treasures, they need to get to know them now.
Luis Olmeda
Making the Imperial Valley a safer place to breathe.
Santa Monica Beach
Explore why Californians like visiting the beach, and what prevents them from doing so.
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If we see Native people as expert colleagues instead of historical figures, we all stand a greater chance of working together.
People walk with groceries in plastic bags in Chinatown on March 28, 2007 in San Francisco | Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images
Their fight against plastic bags becomes even more urgent as the threat of floods looms even larger.
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Idling traffic at the San Ysidro border crossing pollutes the air. One group is trying to find out how much.
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