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Sierra Bellows

Sierra Bellows lives in Missoula, Montana. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and the Greensboro Review, among other publications.

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Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Intimate relationships shaped by the movement of history

by Sierra Bellows | Monday, June 01, 2015
Water in the Empty Part of the Map

Water in the Empty Part of the Map

The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke

by Sierra Bellows | Friday, December 07, 2012
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After the Storm

by Stephanie Bastek

In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, we’re revisiting our interview with environmental reporter Elizabeth Rush. Smarty Pants host Stephanie Bastek asks what the future looks like for America’s coastal residents, especially as climate change contributes to rising sea levels and worsening storm seasons. “The options for the people and animals in these places is stark: retreat or die,” Bastek says. “Those are the options we generally associate with far-off islands, like Fuji or Kiribati. But dramatic, life-changing climate change is happening right now in our own backyard.”