Libby, Montana
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
This is the story of the Wayana people in French Amazonia, whose future is threatened following the arrival of gold miners.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.
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.