Content tagged "Smeltertown"

Posted by Kendra Pierre-Louis S.M., Science Writing, 2016
Topics: climate change, environment, pollution, refugees, Smeltertown, Texas

Geographies of Nowhere: Smeltertown and the Rising Wave of Environmental Refugees

We don’t often think of modern American communities as places that disappear. But lead pollution erased the tiny TX community of Smeltertown from the map.