Mountaintop Removal

Documentaries

News Reports

• Aerial Photos Show The Sheer Destruction Of West Virginia’s Mountaintop Removal Mining – Business Insider
• Community Impacts of Mountaintop Removal – Appalachian Voices
• Destroying Precious Land and Communities- The Devastating Practice of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining – Medium
• Mining the Mountains – Smithsonian Magazine
• Moving mountains for profit – Washington Examiner
• Mountaintop mining causes 40 percent loss of aquatic biodiversity – Phys.org
• Mountaintop Removal Mining- The Price of Unchecked Greed – HuffPost News
• New Study Reveals the Full Scope of Mountaintop Removal Devastation – TruthOut
• The Violent Remaking of Appalachia – The Atlantic
• What Is Mountaintop Removal Mining? – Earthjustice

Short Films

Presentation

Images

• Galleries – OHVEC

Facts and Stats

• Mountaintop removal mining – Wikipedia

Academic Papers

• Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine – PLOS ONE

  • Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine – PLOS ONE – Sci-Hub.se

Websites

• Appalachian Mountain Advocates
• Coal River Mountain Watch
• iLoveMountains.org — End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards