Noise
The first time it happened it was a B3. It came out, but something in the air pressed it back, and it slipped sideways and skidded off...
Shared Air
If the State of Deseret had come to pass, my great-grandmother’s homestead would have been on Utah soil. As it stands, my family’s state...
Fashion Statement
It is December and I can’t see the snow-capped mountains. Salt Lake has been smothered in an inversion for a week. The air is...
Brigham Young Would Have Marched on By
The perky voice of Donna Kemp Spangler, spokesperson for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, came over the radio announcing a...
Legacies of Snow and Love
Silver strands of hair stretch out of my grandfather’s dark, spotted scalp with the determination of tulips breaking the surface of...
Breathing Pollution
Asthma attacks can come on suddenly and can be triggered any time of year by ozone or particulate air pollution. I have been a practicing...
2.5 Months (A New Pair of Lungs Becomes Tired)
Dec 2 | boiling frog I am new to town waiting here at the bus stop wearing a respirator mask. A gaggle of high school boys, ...
The Air We Breathe Is Life
As indigenous people who were close to nature, our people have always cherished clean air. The Ute elders say in the early days the Ute...