'If we can come back from that, we can come back from anything': The burning river that fuelled a US green movement
- Posted on May 1, 2025
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'If we can come back from that, we can come back from anything': The burning river that fuelled a US green movement

The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it regularly went up in flames. Images of one dramatic blaze in 1952 shaped the US's nascent environmental movement, long after the flames went out.