Carp as Villains and Victims
Teri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims?
Tagged: Water
Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People
In reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world.
“Buying Time,” and Other Charismatic Temporalities of Climate Change
Mark Carey explores the themes of out of time, accelerating time, and buying time in current climate change discourse, arguing that they flatten other social constructions of time and perpetuate empty “scientific” solutions.
Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin
The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin.
The Ocean’s Beating Hearts
Hilary Clark reflects on how whale watching in Monterey helps reveal important marine multispecies connections—some more unexpected than others.
Hindustan Zinc and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility
In 2021 and 2022, Prerna Rana spoke with people in Udaipur, India whose livelihoods have been impacted negatively by both environmental pollution and the corporate social responsibility programs meant to mitigate that harm.
Swamp Feelings
Annie Proulx’s 2022 book Fen, Bog, and Swamp is a melancholy love letter to wetland ecosystems. But missing from this lament, Nino McQuown argues, are hopeful histories of resistance.
Grappling with the Drying Riverbeds of the Agua Fria
As the once flowing Agua Fria river runs dry, Rachel Howard discusses how Arizona communities are living with climate change.
What Minnesota’s Mineral Gaze Overlooks
Minnesota state agencies have a history of seeing the landscape with an eye toward extraction, writes Andrew Hoyt, ignoring water resources and Indigenous sovereignty in favor of risky mining.
Farms, Fertilizer, and the Fight for Clean Water
In Portage County, Wisconsin, 95 percent of the nitrate in groundwater comes from agriculture, and it’s having major health consequences for residents. Ground Truths editors Ben Iuliano and Carly Griffith find out how community members have used scientific and legal advocacy to fight for cleaner drinking water.
