Leveling Appalachia: Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining (via @yaleE360 and @mediastorm)

Samples Mine, Mountaintop Removal Mine, West Virginia. Panorama Photo: Dennis Dimick /flickr

Video Report at Yale Environment 360 Produced by Chad Stevens at MediaStorm:

"During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration withMediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the long-term effects on the region's forests and waterways..."

Also see: John McQuaid: The Razing of Appalachia

Also see: John G. Mitchell and Melissa Farlow in National Geographic: When Mountains Move

also see: Tim Appenzeller in National Geographic: The High Cost of Cheap Coal

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