A massive spill of 184 million gallons of red, caustic, toxic sludge occurred on October 4 when a waste impoundment failed at an alumina processing facility near the city of Ajka in Hungary. Nine people have died, dozens were injured, and many were displaced when the red tide swept through several towns. On October 7 […]
The 33 gold miners in Chile who have been trapped underground for more than 2 months are being rescued, right now. Watch live coverage of this joyful event. It’s good to see a happy ending this time.
We just learned that the Cotter Corporation has decided not to re-open it’s uranium mill near Canon City. While it was operating this plant contaminated soil and groundwater so severely that in 1984 it was designated a Superfund toxic-waste site. Cleanup to remediate high levels of uranium and molybdenum has lagged, and SkyTruth images show […]
It’s official: strip-mining for coal using the massively disruptive process known as “mountaintop removal” definitively pollutes streams and rivers. Duke University researchers just announced the results of a new study (published July 2012 in the Environmental Science and Technology Journal) that quantitatively links the amount of mining activity within West Virginia watersheds to levels of […]
Pebble is a proposed open-pit copper/gold mine located in southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna, within the watershed of Bristol Bay. Environmental, fishing and sportsmen’s groups are concerned about the impact mining in this region could have on Alaska’s wild salmon fishery, an industry worth $400 million annually to the Alaskan economy. Watch a short trailer […]