Justin Hicks

2 weeks ago | wuot.org | Curtis Tate |Justin Hicks

Jan 20, 2025 | lpm.org | Roxy Todd |Justin Hicks

At the Salem Stone Quarry in Dublin, Virginia, miners crush rocks with a machine. The air is thick with dust. “You can try as hard as you want to, there’s gonna be some dust somewhere,” said Scott Ross, director of engineering at Salem Stone. “But we’re trying to minimize that as much as we can.”Another machine pulverizes the stones into finer material for asphalt.Quarries like this exist all over the United States, and like coal mines, they’re regulated as a mining operation.

Jan 14, 2025 | wbfo.org | Justin Hicks

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:The giant salamander called the hellbender has been put on a list of species that may soon be considered endangered. Now, when fully grown, it takes two hands to just even hold one. The hellbender, though, needs very clean water to survive, and that's getting harder to find. Kentucky Public Radio's Justin Hicks went to meet some hellbenders.

Jan 14, 2025 | kuow.org | Justin Hicks

Hellbender salamanders could be added to endangered species listA giant salamander called the "hellbender" is on its way to becoming an endangered species. It needs very clean water to survive and that's getting harder to find.

Jan 14, 2025 | ctpublic.org | Justin Hicks

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