— In a snowswept trailer park, Emily Medina wakes each morning wondering whether she will be washed away by toxic water that local officials fear could burst from a decaying mine tunnel near her home.
Now community leaders hope the lure of cheap square footage in the 19th- and early 20th-century structures will transform the decaying former mining-company town into a refuge for artists, whose creativity will spark reclamation.
They include the world's first industrial housing at Cromford in Derbyshire, rescued from demolition in the 1970s, the derelict engine house of a Cornish arsenic mine and a decaying Martello Tower in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, built in 1812.
But in 2002, after spending decades as an investment banker, Ross earned the nickname "bottom feeder" when he started buying up decaying steel mills and coal mines.
The 79-year-old private equity mogul earned the nicknames "bottom feeder" and "king of bankruptcy" in the mid-2000s, when he became known for buying up decaying businesses, including steels mills, coal mines and textile factories.
Not far from the forests in Klag Bay is a low-priority Superfund site; decaying boats and rusted barrels remain from a gold mine closed in 1942.
In order to mine for new glycoside hydrolases from the microbial community decaying poplar wood chips, a random shotgun metagenomic expression library was constructed.
This is pretty crazy but fun: one day I called up a friend of mine, the photographer Rosamond Purcell, and said to her, "I have a collection of decaying dice".
They just start decaying.
