A remarkable story of a deadly mining pit in Montana and the 342 Snow Geese who landed in it. Definitely worth listening to. Actually, everything on Radiolab is worth listening to.
"Soren Wheeler takes us to Butte, Montana--where an open pit copper mine’s demise leads to a toxic lake filled with corrosive runoff. Reporter Barret Golding goes to visit the pit lake, and writer Edwin Dobb tells Soren the story of a pile of dead snow geese who made an ill-fated landing on the water. Soren also talks to husband-and-wife chemists Andrea Stierle and Don Stierle, whose startling discovery reveals the secret life inside a death trap."
I second that notion about Radiolab.
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