coal mine

Over just the last 50 years, humanity as taken more out of the earth than in all the rest of human history combined. The wounds left behind by this extraction — mines, oil wells, quarries, poisoned rivers, hollowed-out industrial towns — now form the true map of our civilization and our age. What can we learn by confronting these ruins?

Efforts continued this weekend to rescue ten miners trapped underground in the El Pinabete coal mine, 70 miles southwest of Eagle Pass in Sabinas, Coahuila in Mexico.

Thousands of acres of former coal mining land in Texas could be contaminated because of the state's lax enforcement of industry requirements.Texas is the…