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Beheaded mountaintops and fish with curved spines
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"... peakless mountains and curved-spine fish are the hidden consequences of coal extraction and use. The impacts are present on the landscape even before the coal is burned and remain for decades after it has been consumed. No amount of remediation can rebuild the tops of these mountains, remove the pollution that has already been released or restore the species that have been lost from these streams."
The destruction of the beauty and the nature of West Virginia, all for coal:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/wild-wonderful-west-virginias-decapitated-mountains-and-deformed-fish/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+observations%2Ffeed+%28Blog%3A+Observations%29
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