Tag: Infrastructure

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Thirst, Toxins, and Trouble: America’s Water Crisis Is Bigger Than Flint

Gina Hill

Satellite images from NASA’s Landsat program show Lake Mead shrinking dramatically between 2000 and 2022 as drought and rising temperatures strain the Colorado River Basin. By July 2022, the nation’s … Read More

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Alaska’s Hidden Black History That Built a Frontier

Gina Hill

In this 1942 photograph from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, a Black soldier peers through a surveyor’s transit during construction of the Alaska Highway in Alaska’s northern sector. The … Read More