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The family home of Rochelle Smith, Yolanda Spalding and Siritta Varnicker is on a street close to a tailing mountain in Riverlea. On windy days tailing dust ends up on top of and inside houses like theirs. PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK '26/THE HAWK

Mine dumps expose community to health issues

Anna Kalafatis '22, Staff Writer August 28, 2024

Johannesburg, South Africa  –  A series of yellow mountains looms over the township of Riverlea, about six miles west of Johannesburg. The mountains, known as tailings, are the result of waste materials...

The Instagram page is regularly updated with upcoming panel discussions.

St. Joe’s alum co-hosts panel on environmental racism

Devin Yingling August 21, 2020

An Aug. 16 panel on environmental racism, co-hosted by Dumonde ‘Slam’ Dunkley ’20 and Kawehi Perry-Ahoy, discussed the current global climate crisis and how it relates to the Black Lives Matter (BLM)...

It's bigger than plastic straws

It’s bigger than plastic straws

Faith Cowell April 29, 2019

Small eco-friendly efforts are good, but not enough Efforts to reduce plastic waste have been on the rise in the last few years, especially since this past July when Starbucks announced that they would...

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