NASA Satellite Image Time Series Reveals Spread Of W. Virginia Mountaintop Removal

[hatrack]

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The most dramatic valley fill that appears in the series, however, is what appears to be the near-complete filling of Connelly Branch from its source to its mouth at the Mud River between 1996 and 2000. Since 2004, the mine has expanded from the Connelly Branch area to the mountaintops north of the Mud River. Significant changes are apparent to the ridges and valleys feeding into Berry Branch by 2009. Over the 25-year period, the disturbed area grew to more than 10,000 acres (15.6 square miles).



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http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0302-coal-nasa.html

[tom_paine]

1. Are humans nothing more than cancer cells with shoes?

Maybe it's just the sadness of living in a society in which the New Dark Ages are hurtling toward us so fast, and the "Bad Guys" (i.e those utilizing the same alliance with of the rich and the ignorant to crush human intellectual and social progress for the standard reason: sociopathic greed) just keep winning and winning and winning, but I remember thinking humanity wouldn't be doing the universe a service by extincting ourselves.

Not anymore.

[YankeyMCC]

2. I felt sick scrolling down through these...

not as sick as the forests, waters, the beings that live there including the people though I'm sure. They need help.