Iron Crows
This film examines life in the Chittagong ship demolition yard, where workers risk their lives for two dollars a day to provide for their families.
This film examines life in the Chittagong ship demolition yard, where workers risk their lives for two dollars a day to provide for their families.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
When the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on 24 March 1989, it releases 41.6 million tons of crude oil along the coast of Alaska. The spill causes enormous damage to local ecosystems and wildlife.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
An on-the-ground view of working conditions in one of Chittagong’s shipbreaking yards provides insight into what happens to large ships at the end of their lives, and the people who dismantle them.