Indiana Harbor: East Chicago, Indiana

“the iron that built the Chicago skyline… came through this port…”

Poisoned Deseret Desert

The area around the Great Salt Lake in Utah has got to be one of the most disgusting places in the world. No, seriously. As though the terrain wasn’t inhospitable enough, industries have managed to poison it. You’d figure it would look like Israel, in that the desert would be green, desalinized, all that. There [...]

Like a Neon Sign

Even from great height you can see that something is amiss. The blue-green mining effluent here comes from local copper and nickel mining industries, and leaves a dead, bare spot that one can reflect on from orbit. The company operating here has been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations. The tailings pool itself is an [...]