Several hundred vertical feet of mountain have been blasted to smithereens to expose a rich vein of coal; the bulldozers are moving in to harvest the bounty. (discovermagazine.com)
I have described CLT as the dream material: it's made from a renewable resource, it sequesters carbon, it is strong enough to replace wood and concrete in higher buildings, and right now, it helps use up some of the billions of board - feet of mountain pine - beetle infested wood that will rot if we don't cut it and use it fast. (treehugger.com)
«The waste waters are directly pumped into the ponds at the foot of the mountain, polluting the whole water system and damaging large amounts of forest, vegetation and paddy fields.» (afr.com)