Tag: mining
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The covert industry that is destroying the world’s rivers
Sediment is being removed from the rivers like the Mekong faster than it can be naturally replenished, increasing the risk of riverbank collapse. This photo was taken in Cái Bè, Vietnam. [Credit: Corryn Wetzel | CC BY-SA 4.0] The global boom in sand mining threatens millions, a new study of the Mekong River suggests Good…
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The Florida Activist Is 78. The Legal Judgment Against Her Is $4 Million.
Maggy Hurchalla kayaking near her home in Stuart, Fla., this summer. Eve Edelheit for The New York Times STUART, Fla. — Maggy Hurchalla’s piece of Florida heaven is a patch of pristine Atlantic shore accessible only by boat in St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park. She and her husband nicknamed it the “End of the…
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Alabama: Birmingham opposes coal mine near drinking water source
Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com A drinking water intake facility for the Birmingham Water Works Board along the Black Warrior River’s Mulberry Fork is about five miles from the site of a proposed coal mine in Walker County, Ala. This facility provides drinking water for 200,000 people. The Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Water Works Board…
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“Wild, Wonderful” West Virginia’s Decapitated Mountains and Deformed Fish
Photo credit: Mandel Ngan Getty Images A scientist documents the poisoning of the state’s waters by the coal industry I spot a mountain peak covered in dense forest, then another and another. But then, where I expect to see yet another forested mountaintop, I see instead a stunted plateau—a mountain whose once distinct peak has…
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The cataclysmic cost of Trump’s ‘war on oceans’
Photo illustration by Lesley Becker/Globe Staff/Adobe Stock This summer, 60 million Americans will head to the seaside to enjoy majestic waves and salty breezes. It all seems reassuringly familiar. But the oceans, which cover 70 percent of the earth and control the climate, the water cycle, and 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe, are…
