Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
With the drying of its sister lake for purposes of agricultural development, Pamvotis is suffering accelerating degradation.
Wan Yin Kim Fung’s “What Cannot Be Unearthed” is a sensitively told account that quite literally gives pause to the toxic fallout of nineteenth- and twentieth-century copper mining in eastern Japan. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss similarities and differences in the history of water supply, pollution, and waste management in St. Petersburg and Vienna.
Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoods.
