Mountaintop Removal Inwards Appalachia

More than i 1000000 acres of woods convey been destroyed inward Appalachia yesteryear mountaintop removal coal mining. This environmentally devastating bird of strip-mining has too permanently destroyed over 500 mountains together with 2,700 mount ridge-tops inward the region.

You tin assay the huge scale of the devastation to the mount environs of Appalachia on SkyTruth's Mountain Top Removal interactive map. The map uses Google Map's aerial imagery to exhibit the environmental touching on of strip-mining inward Appalachia. It too allows yous to sentiment how that environmental devastation has progressed over the end thirty years.

To practise the map SkyTruth examined satellite imagery of the expanse dating dorsum to 1976. SkyTruth searched for bear witness of strip-mining inward the satellite imagery yesteryear looking for mines together with then large that they crossed ridge tops together with impacted a pregnant expanse of ridge top. You tin sentiment the results of this interrogation yesteryear using the five yearly active mining layers on the SkyTruth map. These layers permit yous to sentiment how strip-mining has progressed inward the portion since 1985.