One year later, one of the first people to set up camp at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation reflects on the protests and how the movement has changed the course of her life.
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The Land Beneath the Lake
A woman remembers what life was like before her family was relocated from its ancestral home and her tribe from its most fertile farmland.
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Standing Rock protesters seek solace at Wounded Knee
Less than a week after police razed Oceti Sakowin, the main demonstration camp behind the effort to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, some of the last resisters who hail from these prairie lands embraced the anniversary to find closure and to heal.
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Big Oil’s grip on California
Known nationally as a laboratory of progressive values and environmental protection, California is perhaps the last place one would expect Big Oil to hold sway.
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An end and a beginning at Standing Rock
Bulldozers dug into temporary structures, police slashed open teepee-style dwellings and more than two dozen people were arrested at the heavily militarized evacuation of the last protesters at Oceti Sakowin, the main camp at Standing Rock.
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What will it take to get Canada’s Arctic off diesel?
As climate change ravages the North, an Inuit-led company in Inukjuak, Quebec, is pushing to build a small-scale hydro project that would end the community’s dependence on diesel. If they succeed dozens of communities across the Arctic could follow.
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Officers surround main Standing Rock camp, preparing for evacuations
They have the camps surrounded – dozens of North Dakota police and National Park Service rangers who are counting down the hours to clear the network of camps behind the Dakota Access Pipeline battle.
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Reinforcements arrive as camp closure looms
New realities about the nearly yearlong Standing Rock demonstration started to be realized.
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How America’s tallest dam nearly overflowed
After the water in Lake Oroville reached the highest level since 1985, officials released more water from the dam through its main spillway. But a massive sinkhole split the spillway, prompting the evacuation of 180,000 in nearby communities. We built a 3D flyover of the time and charts to show what lead up to these events,
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He was supposed to protect the sea. Then he vanished from his ship
Hundreds of miles out to sea, fisheries observer Keith Davis was the odd man out, a scientific monitor and conspicuous informant in the company of mariners he did not know. He carried no badge, no weapon. One day, he disappeared from the ship.