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Topic: Uranium

Pinyon Plain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Taylor McKinnon/Center for Biological Diversity)

Advocates demand halt to uranium mine

Matthew Rozsa
An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank crew with Company A, 4th Tank Battalion, fires its 120 mm main gun during the company’s pre-qualification tank gunnery at Range 500, Aug. 4, 2015. The live-fire exercise tests tank crews on their ability to work together on target acquisition and accuracy. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw/Released)

Ukraine gets depleted uranium munitions

Kathryn Higley - The Conversation
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

Joseph Lee
Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COVID disrupting global mining industry

John Steen - The Conversation
A soldier walks past open sewage on December 14, 2005 in Az Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq. (John Moore/Getty Images)

How the U.S. poisoned Iraq

David Masciotra
In this Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 photo, water flows past a sculpted landscape at Confluence Park, where Cherry Creek joins the South Platte, a key channel in Colorado’s water supply, in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Groundwater polluted by uranium mining

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Don't forget about the Steele dossier

Matthew Sheffield
Hillary Clinton (Getty/Angela Weiss)

Hillary and the "real Russia scandal"

Heather Digby Parton
(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Trump’s nuclear strategy makes no sense

Nancy Gallagher - The Conversation
(Lance Longwell)

Reynard Loki - Alternet
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Sleeping sickness on rise

Joanna Rothkopf
Thousands of small black boxes used for uranium mining are scattered across Christensen Ranch in Wyoming. (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

Abrahm Lustgarten
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