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Uranium

LaTanya Dickson's family has to travel 20 miles to get clean water, which they store in jugs under the kitchen table of their hogan on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.

An NGO focused on water poverty turns its attention from Africa back to the US

Environment

A call from a potential donor to an international NGO working on access to clean water proved a turning point for both the group and a fight in the US.

Uranium

Commodities are crashing, with one exception

Economics
President Barack Obama and Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, are seen in this combination photo as they attend the opening ceremony of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 24, 2014.

Relations with Russia chill, and nuclear security cooperation gets put on ice

Science
The World

Iran pursues nuclear ambitions, produces yellowcake uranium

Environment
The World

Navajo Uranium Miners

Listener Letters

Listeners respond to: a story on the U.S. military’s use of depleted uranium ammunition, and an interview with environmental journalist and media critic Paul Brodeur.

Uranium Bullets in Kosovo

Steve talks with Gulf War veteran Dan Fahey about the U.S. military’s use of ammunition made from depleted uranium. The bullets can penetrate tank armor, but they leave behind a fine dust which has been shown to have health effects on both soldiers and local populations.

Audience Letters

We check in with recent responses on our inquiry into some of the motivating forces behind war, plastics plant placement, and uranium extraction.

The World

Navajo Uranium Miners: Giving Their All

One day in 1950, a Navajo man named Paddy Martinez picked up a few yellow rocks while herding sheep east of Crownpoint, New Mexico. His handful of ore turned out to be uranium. And the find, together with discoveries in Utah, sparked a series of mining booms that changed life forever in the southwest. By […]

The World

Native Uranium Miners

Most US uranium deposits are found in the mountain West, expecially in the Four Corners region where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet. Uranium there was mined mostly by Indian people. The mines are gone now, along with their high-paying jobs. What’s left, many natives say, is a deadly legacy  ? for which the […]