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Coal burning power station on the banks of the Dnipro River; making the most of the region's vast supplies of coal.

Snow dusts the slag heaps of a disused mine in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Topographical map of the coal rich Donbas ridge in the south east of Ukraine.

The two oblasts which make up the Donets River basin in eastern Ukraine and its surrounding countries.

Nature begins to reclaim the landscape as vegetation and seedlings recolonate land covered by slag heaps from a disused mine.

Slag heaps and waste from mines lies in heaps across the landscape, with rain creating channels and attempting to reclaim the earth from mining back into the land.

European fossil from the carboniferous period; the fossilised plants signify the swampy environments which existed during this period.

Reconstruction of the Earth in the late carboniferous period: the light blue areas represent shallow seas and swampy areas where fossil fuels were first laid down.

Vibrant reds and oranges of mineral waste from mining operations coat the left-over slag heaps at a disused Donbas mine.

Heavy industry in Zaporozhye, just to the west of the Donbas region.

Factories in eastern Ukraine, powered by the region's plentiful supply of fossil fuels.

Millions of tonnes of pollution are pumped from the heavy industry factories in eastern Ukraine.

The Soviet era factories of eastern Ukraine, belching out thick pollution.

The industrial horizon of the western Donbas region.

Slag heaps, mountains of industrial waste, dominate the Donbas skyline.

Lines of heavy industry factories in Zaporozhye in eastern Ukraine.

Map of the geometric layout of Donetsk's streets.

Soviet era factories in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian miners pose for a picture celebrating the extraction of three million tonnes of coal at Kholodnaya Balka mine, a Donbas coalfield, November 20, 2009.

1894 - Ukrainian peasants scavenge for coal in the late 19th century. This practice still occurs today in eastern Ukraine.

1895 - Coal miners changing shift in the late 19th century.

Mining machine on show in the centre of Donetsk celebrating its history.

Mine shaft at sunset in the industrial Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Abandoned coal mine in Donetsk; disintegrating since the fall of the Soviet Union.

"The Miner", the symbol of Donetsk, holding out a chunk of coal.

Abandoned coal mine in Donetsk next to a graveyard.

Lenin Square in the Ukraine, affirming Ukraine's links with Russia.