Aiken, Katherine, Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of A Great Mining Company, 1885-1981
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
Karabash is one of the largest copper-smelting centers in Russia and open-pit copper extraction has been conducted there since 1837. In 1996, Karabash and its surrounding area were declared an ecological disaster zone. The city is still considered to be one of the most polluted places in the world.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
This article is an exploration of the chemical heritage of mining activities in northern Chile.
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
This piece examines the historical context of industrial heritage tourism of the post-industrial landscape at the São Domingos Mine in southeastern Portugal.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke shows how topics of pollution and waste in German-language writing reach back to the nineteenth century, when the production of industrial waste—and pollution of the air, ground, and water—first began to occur on a massive scale. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke shows how topics of pollution and waste in German-language writing reach back to the nineteenth century, when the production of industrial waste—and pollution of the air, ground, and water—first began to occur on a massive scale. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.