Each year logging companies drop thousands of pounds of herbicides onto Oregon forests; sometimes, the people living nearby get sprayed and sick.
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What happens when your garden, your kid’s school, the playground sits on top of former farms and orchards? What chemicals are living in the soil?
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“It’s absolutely shocking what’s going on,” say insiders. Secretive changes have diluted science and jeopardized public health.
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Fresno County growers apply pesticides an average of 273,000 times per year; they don’t always stay in the fields for which they’re intended; they may lace the air and drift throughout town onto, say, the playground or people’s homes.
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If hybrids are driving a revolution, it's a televised road trip to marketing heaven.
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An unlikely group of New Mexicans works to protect their communities from gas development.
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A gas-extraction process called “fracking” may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the EPA refuses to investigate — a failure one of its own engineers calls “irrational and corrupt.”
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That’s what some women farmworkers call the fields and orchards in which they face persistent sexual assaults. As if backbreaking work, low wages and pesticide poisoning weren’t enough.
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In the Arctic, where flowers are madly blooming, trees are growing to mutant sizes and the snowpack is thinning, researchers are getting an incontrovertible view of global warming.
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There are times during the year, he says, when the sky turns black as the sun disappears behind waves of birds that roll overhead. But this fall, when over 1.5 million birds return on their southern migration, the waterfowl had best make reservations at a Holiday Inn.
*winner of an honorable mention from the 2002 John B Oakes award
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