Coal miners eat as they break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan, 740 meters (2,427 feet) deep inside the Stara Jama coal mine, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 15, 2015.

but their work above ground was integral to the coal camp system. In many cases, a wife's unpaid labor made it possible for the miner to do his job. Women prepared the food that the miners brought ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains ... as part of the food web, then spread the poison to other creatures. Water birds and mammals eat poisoned fish ...