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Nick Mott is a reporter and podcast producer who focuses on wildlife, natural resources, and the environment. He was editor on the podcasts Shared State and Fireline, and producer on the podcasts Threshold and Richest Hill.

Nick Mott is an reporter who also works on the Threshold podcast.

Butte, Montana, doesn’t have a major art museum. Instead, it has a gigantic toxic pit.

The Atlantic Richfield Co. and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology teamed up this fall to try to get a better sense of the biodiversity and density of birds at the

If migrating birds land on Montana's Berkeley Pit for just a few hours, they die. Now, miners use a rifle, drones, and lasers to scare them away.

A former copper mine in Montana has been flooding with toxic groundwater since the 1980s. The water is so toxic that any birds that land on the lake

Environment & Science

U.S. House plan for new mining royalties draws objections from Western senators; budget reconciliation package; infrastructure

Toxic parrot tailings dirt being removed from Butte to improve Silver Bow Creek Toxic parrot tailings dirt being removed from Butte to improve Silver Bow Creek By: John Emeigh and last updated 2021-07-08 20:08:30-04 BUTTE - Haul trucks have started moving tons of contaminated dirt from a site off Civic Center Road in Butte to prevent heavy metals from seeping into groundwater that could be harmful to aquatic life. “The contaminated material gets hauled over here and dumped ...

Documentary in the works about the destruction of two towns in Butte "The company had eminent domain, they have an eminent domain law and we had no choice.." Upcoming documentary explores the story of what happened to Meaderville and McQueen By: Kaitlyn Aguiles and last updated 2021-06-28 19:25:15-04 BUTTE — Dan Fulton and his son want to bring the story of Meaderville and McQueen to the big screen. The two are working together to make a documentary about what happened and ...