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Three researcher look over an abandoned mine on the Navajo Nation on Oct. 19, 2013. Uranium mining from the mid-1900s left over 500 unregulated mines scattered once mining stopped in 1986. 

Photo by David Begay

La contaminación de décadas de minería de uranio persiste en la tierra Navajo

Mar Ruiz April 4, 2017

En la tierra de la nación Navajo, el fantasma del pasado de la industria minera sigue persiguiendo a los nativos que viven ahí. Comenzó en la década de 1940 cuando las tierras navajo eran y siguen...

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Contamination from decades of uranium mining lingers on Navajo land

Lauren Renteria March 8, 2017

  On Navajo Nation land, the ghost of the mining industry’s past still haunts the native people who live there. It began in the 1940s when the Navajo land was — and still is — a...

Nick Korte y su hermana Caitlin, antes de la muerte de Nick en el 2012.  (Fotografía cortesía por la Familia Korte)

A pesar de la voluntad de donar hay una gran necesidad de órganos

Alicia Vega October 13, 2015

A la edad de 15 años, Nick Forte llegó a casa con su permiso de manejar en mano, fastidiando a sus papás para que aceptaran darle permiso de poder ser un donador de órganos en cuanto tuviera la oportunidad....

Nick Korte and his sister Caitlin in 2012 before his death. Photo courtesy of the Korte Family

Organs still needed despite willingness to donate

tanner Clinch September 30, 2015

At age 15, Nick Korte came home with his driving learner’s permit, nagging his parents for consent to become an organ donor at the first opportunity. Five years years later, on Nov. 9, 2012, he was brain...

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