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Utah Public Radio | By Eric Tegethoff, August 11, 2023 , https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2023-08-11/oppenheimer-japan-bombings-put-nuclear-energy-in-a-harsh-light The power and destructiveness of nuclear energy has been in the spotlight since the film "Oppenheimer" was released in July. It is in focus again this week with the anniversaries of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. Mary…

By Natalie Pate for The Hechinger Report.Broadcast version by Eric Tegethoff for Oregon News Service reporting for The Hechinger Report-Public News Service Collaboration Jaeci Hall completed her dissertation in tears. She was writing about the importance of revitalizing and teaching Indigenous languages, specifically the Nuu-wee-ya’ language and her tribe’s dialects. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.” Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in l...

‘You can put all the sound buffering on Abu Ghraib that you want to, but this is not something anyone wants in their neighborhood.’

North Carolina groups are gathering to tackle the main challenges climate change presents to local communities at today's NC Breathe Conference in Charlotte. A 2022 study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill showed rural and minority communities are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, with less resilience to natural disasters. Andrew Wheland, communications manager for CleanAIRE NC, shed light on how the communities are affected. ...

As Colorado faces mounting challenges associated with a changing climate - record-breaking wildfires, extreme drought and dwindling water supplies, the loss of habitat for native plants and animals - a new roadmap aims to help secure the state's most critical natural resources by doubling the footprint of conserved lands over the next ten years. Linda Lidov - interim executive director of the group Keep It Colorado - said people who have lived in the area for centuries, along with recent transplants, share a lot of the same values about the place they call home. "The wide open scen...