The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines

Grist
By Katie MyersOct 5, 2023, 4:30 am196 pts
Stripping coal from a mountain demands a wholesale rearrangement of its summit and the transformation of the surrounding forest into a moonscape. Enormous machines rip out the vegetation first, followed by the topsoil, and finally a layer or two of rock. It all becomes waste, dumped into a valley below the…

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