In the images you can see like a coalmine outdoors it devours a mountain of the Appalachians in Virgina Occidental (USA). The space between two photos taken the satellite Landsat 5 of the NASA is 25 years, the first one is of 1984 and the second one is of 2009.
The photos show how the forests disappear and the scenery fills with gigantic excavated craters following the seams of the coal. The area of the mine has grown during this time more than 40 square kilometers.
The consequences of this type of mines are great, not only it is the destruction of the nature, but also the contamination in the shape of acid rain and gas emission of greenhouse effect.
Doctor Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland has warned that “the scientific evidence of the serious environmental and human impacts of the mining of mountain is big and irrefutable“. Also, “his effects are generalized and of long duration and there are no proofs that the mitigation practices could revertir successfully the caused damage.”
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