Industrial Decline Plagues Former Alcoa Company Towns
A once thriving mining community rebuilds as the pullout of Pittsburgh's Alcoa sinks in.
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A once thriving mining community rebuilds as the pullout of Pittsburgh's Alcoa sinks in.
South Africa's mining industry is slowly abandoned, a trend captured in this photo essay for Johannesburg's Saturday Star newspaper.
For decades, China ignored the civil war raging on its border in Myanmar's Kachin State. But recently, it has become involved in the peace process leading observers to ask what it really wants.
A 19-month investigation exposes South Africa's failure to stop the ongoing pollution from coal mines that have been shut down.
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Before the Mozambican civil war, Gorongosa National Park was among the top destinations in Africa, with a higher concentration of animals than on the famed Serengeti Plain. But during the war, soldiers and other poachers killed these vast herds, planted landmines and destroyed the park's infrastructure. By the 1990s,...
Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo have resulted in millions of Congolese lives lost, while benefiting the trade of small arms and valuable minerals like coltan.
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