People Stories

Energy company wants to build hydropower projects on the Navajo Nation. Not everyone is on board.

Photo: Percy Deal, a resident of the Big Mountain community on Black Mesa, sits in a field near the foothills…

1 year ago

Understanding the connection between surface water, groundwater and the environment with Caitlin Cornwall

Photo: Caitlin Cornwall at Sonoma Creek next to one of Sonoma Ecology Center’s monitoring stations When Caitlin Cornwall walks along…

1 year ago

Why limiting PFAS in drinking water is a challenge in the US

The EPA faces legal and other hurdles as it attempts to regulate PFOA and PFOS An article in the local…

1 year ago

‘If there’s no water, what’s the point?’ Female farmers in Arizona – a photo essay

Anastasia Rabin ranches on a 16-acre piece of land in Cochise County. But what will she do out here without…

1 year ago

EPIC to honor local watershed advocate

Petey Brucker is pictured collecting otolith bones for fisheries researchers from spawned-out spring chinook salmon in the Trinity Alps Wilderness,…

1 year ago

Vance Kennedy: Farmland trust founder, longtime water expert turns 100

Photo: Turlock’s Jeani and John Ferrari —2021 awardees of the California Farmland Trust’s Dr. Vance Kennedy Award — wish Kennedy…

1 year ago

Finding his calling: Nick Stanley’s journey to leadership

Photo: Nick Stanley smiles while standing in front of a field of yellow wildflowers. Photo by Vanessa Morales, USFWS. During…

1 year ago

Pacific Institute Senior Fellow and Co-Founder Dr. Peter Gleick Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Peter H. Gleick Oakland, California — April 19, 2023 — The Pacific Institute is pleased to announce Senior Fellow…

2 years ago

Combining Science with Poetry to Protect Post-Fire Forests: the Activism of Maya Khosla

Photo: Jessica Layton. Maya Khosla has been selected to receive the Fund for Wild Nature’s Grassroots Activist Award for 2023.…

2 years ago

The Wild Ones

People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado…

2 years ago