The goats prevent the terril from being completely taken over by trees and brush ... France's most northerly vineyard, on a slag-heap. Again the versatility of the terril is what surprises.

Freedman said the maturity of the trees would be “a priority factor ... Wildflowers and hedges bloom all over the slag heap, as do trail systems that many people use for walking and mountain ...

A former slag heap in Pittsburgh’s East End is one step closer to becoming a solar farm. The sprawling lot near the edge of Frick Park will soon be cleaned up to make way for a 15-acre solar ...

A slag heap is a hill or area of refuse from a mine or industrial site. Mr Stewart has been recording plants for 30 years and gradually realised that wherever slag was present, wild flowers did well.

A piece of lush land in Northern France is a former slag heap and is the place where the waste from coal mines was dumped. This past summer brought on a heatwave in France that scorched the land ...