Our use of coal Wikipedia says it is the official state mineral of Kentucky, and the official state rock of Utah. It also gets placed in the Christmas stockings of children who have been badly behaved during the year. And… Read More »Coal, Climate, and Tales from Four Countries
Tailings Ponds It happened early on Monday 4th August. The tailings pond dam at the Mount Polley Mine in central British Columbia gave way. Ten million cubic meters of contaminated water and 4.5 million cubic meters of metals-laden sands and… Read More »Tailings ponds, troublesome externalities, tepid regulations and tipping points; what the Mount Polley Mine tells us about Canada’s environmental crisis.
Failure to Protect the Pacific Bluefin Tuna A magnificent creature is going extinct before our eyes because it ranges far and wide across the Pacific Ocean, because it takes too long to grow up before it begins to reproduce, because… Read More »Pacific Bluefin Tuna, Overfishing, and the Anthropocene Defaunation