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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Ian Frazier
Coal Country
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March 1, 2003: At 12:30 in the morning of October 11, 2000, a mountain in eastern Kentucky burst open and let out a flood of mining waste bigger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Coal sludge damaged homes and killed everything in 20 miles of streams. Two years later, the land is green again but the bitterness remains.
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier writes essays and longer works of nonficton. His most recent book is The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors. He keeps a chunk of coal slurry on his desk in a sealed plastic jar.