Nina Elkadi

1 week ago | sentientmedia.org | Nina Elkadi

How can you create nostalgia for a world some have never seen? In Iowa, a group of non-profits has come together to do just this. The 48 Lakes Initiative encourages volunteers to tell stories of their memories with 48 of Iowa’s lakes — recalling a time when these crucial waterways were the center of social life and collective memory. Today, lakes in many parts of the state are now too polluted for safe use.

3 weeks ago | sentientmedia.org | Nina Elkadi

Teresa Mitchell Clausen was almost finished with her shift at a local farm store when a customer came in looking to buy a fruit tree. During their exchange, he said he was a land scout for Foster Farms, and began telling her about the five-year plan for industrial chicken operations in the area, one of which Clausen realized would be built 350 feet from her then-home. “What about the little red farmhouse across the irrigation ditch?” she remembers asking him. “Oh, what is that? One or two people?

1 month ago | sentientmedia.org | Nina Elkadi

At least eight miles of a Southwest-Wisconsin stream were polluted by a manure spill earlier this month. The spill killed hundreds of fish, including many wild brown trout. The affected waterways — Spring Valley Creek, Moore Creek and the Kickapoo River — have long been remarkable for their healthy water quality, healthy enough to sustain naturally-reproducing trout populations.

1 month ago | buff.ly | Nina Elkadi

At least eight miles of a Southwest-Wisconsin stream were polluted by a manure spill earlier this month. The spill killed hundreds of fish, including many wild brown trout. The affected waterways — Spring Valley Creek, Moore Creek and the Kickapoo River — have long been remarkable for their healthy water quality, healthy enough to sustain naturally-reproducing trout populations.

1 month ago | investigatemidwest.org | Nina Elkadi

This story was originally published by The Sentient. At the end of their studies at San Carlos University in Guatemala City, Fredy Alvarado Contreras, Sergio Escobar Gonzalez and Dennis Najera Barillas were recruited to participate in a special opportunity: a year-long internship at a swine operation, where they would learn from experts, partake in American cultural activities and agronomy courses and receive free housing, according to a new lawsuit.