Searching for Savanna
She was young. She was pregnant. She was one of thousands of Native women who go missing every year. Now her disappearance could help others to be found.
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Pacific Standard stories, read out loud.
Losing the News
The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?
Educational Fight or Flight
How do you keep rural schools open when enrollment is declining and small towns are emptying out?
The Young Hands That Feed Us
An estimated 524,000 children work unimaginably long hours in America's grueling agricultural fields, and it's all perfectly legal.
Dairy Disneyland: One Farm’s Quest to Save Industrial Agriculture
Is Fair Oaks Farms bringing transparency to large-scale agriculture—or something more like propaganda?
The Hidden Battle Threatening the Future of America’s Wild Places
State and federal agencies are warring over who has control of wildlife on public lands, while landscapes get trampled and invasive species obliterate endangered ones.
Here Belongs to Us
With his trans-Nicaragua canal, President Daniel Ortega dreams of outdoing the Panama Canal. But in the village of Bangkukuk Taik, and across the country, a resistance movement is protecting indigenous culture and the environment—and exposing the grandiose project's ties to a mysterious Chinese businessman.
Mr. Chen’s Mountain
The story of a Chinese billionaire who moved back home, setting his mansion down in the middle of his economically depressed ancestral village.
Sailing Blind
At the extreme end of adaptive sports, technology allows visually impaired sailors to compete without the assistance of sighted crewmembers.
The Great, Chaotic Biochar Experiment
Australian plant ecologist Brenton Ladd wants to reengineer the notoriously nutrient-poor soils in the Amazon, and, in the process, save the world's trees. But first, he has to convince Peruvian farmers and non-profits—and occasionally, his own research team—that he's not just another gringo with a strange idea.