Mark Ovaska in West Virginia: "Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires"
Outside activists meet local hostility (partly from the union) as battle over mountaintop mining continues.
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Nuclear Bunnies?
Whether the bunny is a Fukushima mutation or not is not really the issue.
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Unit 4 in Danger of Collapse? (And Then, Don't Tell Me There's Nothing To See at Fukushima)
It is often noted that the story remains invisible because radiation is invisible, and that the photos and video being released by TEPCO are overly technical, as well. Well, I'm not buying it.
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Amanda Rivkin in Hungary: Toxic Red Sludge
It's been six months since toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary burst and flooded two surrounding villages. Photographer Amanda Rivkin delivers an update.
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Monuments Deflated: Civilization in Decline?
It doesn’t take long at all for any modern building, city, or society to look rundown, past its best days, trapped now into cycles of decline. All that is needed is enough denial or inattention. Against those tendencies, these photographs suggest how close the present can be...
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Dark Lord Down
Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series #5: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy is out. Their Upper Big Branch mine exploded earlier this year, killing 29.
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Picturing Disaster These Days
Even if the drawing is all about global warming, I still can't help but think how much 9/11 and terrorism permeates our culture's orientation to disaster.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mediation Fails
Fourth post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mingo Slurry
Third post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Moving to Appalachia
Second post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Tree-planting on Kayford Mountain
Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
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A Smoky Warning To All Those Anti-Government Folks Out There
Given the power of denial, it's easy to take in the terrifying photos coming out of Russia right now and think this threat is somehow unique to them.
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Meg Whitman, Natural Wonder
Check out this weird pre-victory party walk-through photo using the background to frame Whitman as almost cartoonish. She deserves it, though, if just for the exploitation of nature and environmentalism.
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Death of the Pelicans
As much as we can know about evils and catastrophe, it's the only the experience of actually seeing this kind of devastation that makes the fact real and felt.
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Meal Time at Prudhoe Bay
The photo, of a grizzly bear foraging for food, is indicative of how nature and industry are already colliding at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
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I’m Pink as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore
If David Nagel is now BP's executive VP in charge of dodging slings and arrows, and he's rapidly losing friends and looking lonely in a crowd, that's why he gets paid the big bucks.
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BP/Gulf Coast: Now It’s Getting Ugly
It's one thing to be read about the impact of something you can't directly see. Having an actual picture changes everything. As the photos from the Gulf shift from pictures of concern and gestures of prevention to portraits of actual fallout - the signature image being the...
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Pray for the Almighty (and Ridiculously Photogenic) Dome
.... U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry used two words repeatedly today 'manage expectations'. "I know we are all hoping that this containment system will work. But, I want to remind everybody that this containment system is a first of its kind deployed in 5 thousand feet of...
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