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Full trash trout sits in stream

Trash Trouts are Collecting Litter and Data on Waterway Pollution

The University of North Georgia Appalachian Studies Center’s signature project, the Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories, is a demonstration garden for heirloom seeds and an oral history collection. Photo courtesy Rosann Kent.

Cultivating Communities Through Seed Saving

Wild dandelions with bright yellow disk-like petals. Photo courtesy of Ila Hatter.

Lions and Trails and Foragers, Oh My!

Researchers Discuss How Climate Change Impacts Health in Rural Mountain Communities

Nancy Bouldin, Lynda Majors, and Donna Pitt have fought the Mountain Valley Pipeline since 2014, uniting in a coalition that spans multiple states.

A Community of Resistance

Hundreds of Miles of Streams Designated as Critical Habitat for At-risk Crawfish

two people in front of a large guitar statue hold signs about the landfill problems

The Beast of Bristol: The Landfill Haunting Residents of the Twin Cities

A Cloud of Coal Mine Dust over a West Virginia Community Points to Regulatory Shortcomings

Revelation Surface Mine

Blackjewel’s Catastrophic Bankruptcy and the Collapse of the Mine Cleanup System

A green salamander peeks its head outside its rocky winter retreat.

Surviving Winter as a Salamander in Appalachia