A major ecological disaster is threatening a rugged stretch of Spain's northwestern coastline,
and the people of La Coruna and the neighboring communities have no one to blame but themselves. A million-ton mountain of garbage, the area's accumulated household trash of more than two decades,is collapsing in a landslide that some locals say they had predicted for years.On September 10,the advancing trash swamped one of the villages from which it emanated, killing a resident.Now it threatens to pollute the sea that provides the livelihood of many people in the area.