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wpurvis on July 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Earth Timelapse

Close to home for me, the removal of mountaintops to get at coal seams in Pike county kentucky:

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=37.47362,-82.4710...

The mines are abandoned now

Edit: updated link - zoom out, a lot of kentucky is affected by this.

skosch on July 31, 2020 [–]

That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier)

wpurvis on July 31, 2020 | [–]

oops, I'll edit my link

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