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National Geographic News (Thu 11 Mar, 2010)
Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Staff quoted: Margaret Palmer
Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.