EU coal regions—opportunities and challenges ahead
Over the past few decades the production and consumption of coal in the EU has been in steady decline, due to the closure of coal mines and the phasing out of coal use for power generation.
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Mapping mountaintop coal mining's yearly spread in Appalachia
The coal industry may have declined in the last decade because of the rise of cheap natural gas, but a coal mining method called mountaintop removal is still taking place, particularly in central Appalachia.
Study shows why eastern U.S. air pollution levels are more stagnant in winter
The air in the United States is much cleaner than even a decade ago. But those improvements have come mainly in summer, the season that used to be the poster child for haze-containing particles that cause asthma, lung cancer ...
Hundreds march in Berlin to demand an end to using coal
Hundreds of protesters are marching through the German capital to demand an end to burning coal to produce electricity.
Checking China's pollution by satellite
Air pollution has smothered China's cities in recent decades. In response, the Chinese government has implemented measures to clean up its skies. But are those policies effective? Now an innovative study co-authored by an ...
Cementless fly ash binder makes concrete 'green'
Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete.
Waste not, want not: a home-grown plan to turn plastic and tyres into fuel
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Like brushing your teeth after a meal, recycling is just the right thing to do.
Coal plants get new life in the sun
Cheaper renewable energy is reshaping how electricity is generated and consumed. In many U.S. electricity markets, including Texas, coal-fired power plants are being retired because they can no longer compete on price compared ...
Historians name 2 Indian Ocean 19th century shipwrecks
A four-year search of the depths of the Indian Ocean has failed to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But the unprecedented sonar hunt for the missing airliner might be close to solving 19th century mysteries—the locations ...
Natural gas prices, not 'war on coal,' were key to coal power decline: study
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural ...
