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Has The Iran War Amplified Coal's Role In Asia's Energy Mix?
Employees work on a freight train loaded with coal at Jiangxi Coal Reserve Center, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province of China. (File Photo: VCG/VCG via Getty Images) The disruption of liquified natural gas supplies from the Middle East to the high energy…
Women tackling coal dust and other eco wins this week
The Trump administration calls coal the 'backbone of affordable and reliable energy' and just pumped $700 million into the industry. Though it once supplied most of the power for the US, over the past decade the fossil fuel has been pushed aside by…
Solar Beat Coal in US Electricity Mix for the First Time in May
Coal's share has nearly halved over the last five years, while solar's has more than doubled. But tariffs and permitting delays could slow growth in the years ahead. The transition away from fossil fuels is often framed as a long-term process, but…
Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power. Burning coal powered Thomas Newcomen's steam engine, invented in Britain in the early 18th century, and the first of a line of increasingly…
OUT ON A LIMB: Remembering miners, rail workers
Sometimes, as a genealogist, you come across something that does not specifically identify an ancestor but is still good background. Here are two recent news items that many Northeastern Pennsylvania family researchers can identify with: the…
Visiting Trinidad: An often-overlooked outdoor recreation gem in southern Colorado
Trinidad has served as a Santa Fe Trail trading stop to a 19th-century coal mining hub to a present day arts mecca, and much more. With ties to the Wild West, coal mining, and more, Trinidad has evolved many times throughout its colorful history.
Why Oil Prices Are Falling Even as Tankers Remain Trapped
Oil prices tumble as markets bet on a Hormuz reopening despite slow tanker movements following the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The signing of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement might provide a 60-day evacuation window for all crude tankers stuck since March…
Producer Prices Rise for Ninth Consecutive Month in May
South Korea's producer prices climbed for the ninth consecutive month in May, mainly on the back of a surge in the cost of fuel and raw materials since the start of the Iran war. According to preliminary data from the Bank of Korea(BOK) on Friday…
Opinion: Trump's Iran-war disgrace cripples the U.S. and elevates China
Please log in to bookmark this story. Create Free Account John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Now that the U.S.-Iran…
Oakland First Fridays fights for its future...on our podcast
For 20 years, Oakland First Fridays has turned a stretch of Telegraph Avenue into a monthly street festival. Now organizers say a false media narrative, one that ties off-site, late-night violence to the event, has driven away sponsors and put the…
Opinion: AI data centres' voracious thirst for water makes their environmental footprint even bigger
Please log in to bookmark this story. Create Free Account The enormous Google data centre in Papillion, Neb., consumed 1.5 billion litres of water in 2024 to cool its power-mad AI activity, according to local newspaper reports. That's the…
The rise of the luxury barbecue: the UK's new outdoor cooking obsession
Burned sausages, limp salads and undercooked chicken legs you live to regret; the British barbecue has historically been a sorry affair. But a slew of fancy equipment the price of a secondhand car is revolutionising the grilling game. The best UK…
Why was 'awful' school toilet paper a bestseller for so long?
If you were born before 1980 you will probably remember Izal medicated toilet paper, a staple of schools, hospitals and many households. Hard, shiny, barely absorbent, and smelling of disinfectant – even some of those who sold it agreed it…
India's cheapest power is here, the grid must catch up
India is leaving tens of gigawatts (GW) of cheap solar and wind power stranded — not because the projects are not ready, but because the grid is not. Upgrading the existing grid with advanced technologies and adding storage at key nodes can…
Why was 'awful' school toilet paper a bestseller for so long?
Linda Walker and Jon Douglas, Producers – Toast, BBC Radio 4 If you were born before 1980 you will probably remember Izal medicated toilet paper, a staple of schools, hospitals and many households. Hard, shiny, barely absorbent, and smelling…
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