The Latest Breaking News from Coal

Wind and Solar Power Capacity to Surpass Coal for First Time in China

The renewable energy sources will make up around 1,300 gigawatts of the country’s installed capacity by the end of 2024, industry body says

Caixin Global · Feb 1, 2024

Koalas threatened by mine approval: environmentalists

Environmental groups warn almost 800 hectares of koala habitat will be cleared if a proposed coal mine in central Queensland goes ahead.

AAP · Feb 1, 2024

Tanya Plibersek urged to block ‘climate-wrecking’ Queensland coalmine that would raze koala habitat

Environmentalists say Vulcan South mine would be an ‘absolute disaster’ for animals including koalas, greater gliders and glossy black cockatoos

The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2024

A video of GitHub's extraordinary deep-freeze archiving project has emerged — millions of projects were saved on 02/02/2020 and there's a good reason why that date was chosen

Arctic Code Vault, containing GitHub repository snapshots, is located in a decommissioned coalmine in Svalbard.

TechRadar · Jan 29, 2024

Gaza diary part 43: ‘Do people around the world think of us as merely news?’

In his latest dispatch from the besieged enclave, Ziad, a 35-year-old Palestinian, walks to the sea but finds only sadness in the empty gazes of the people on the beach

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024

Two Coal Point homes sell for millions more in a few years

'I can't see it being too much longer until these properties are worth $5 million'.

Newcastle Herald · Jan 29, 2024

David Pocock condemns Australia’s fossil fuel projects as an ‘existential threat’ to Pacific neighbours

Independent senator says depiction of Australia as part of ‘Pacific family’ is inconsistent with issuing approvals for new coal and gas projects

The Guardian - AU · Jan 28, 2024

‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis

Dr Art Van Zee set out in the early 2000s to tell anyone who would listen how a powerful opioid was destroying lives. Two decades later, he’s still in disbelief

The Guardian - US · Jan 28, 2024

Chhattisgarh coal and liquor scams: FIR against two former ministers, Cong. leaders

Chhattisgarh ACB registers cheating and forgery cases against previous ministers and others in coal and liquor scams.

The Hindu · Jan 27, 2024

Coal could be in your next CPU — researchers eye coal as a metal oxide insulator replacement in next-gen 2D transistors

A team of researchers are looking into coal as a potential replacement for metal oxide to insulate transistors. If successful coal could change the semiconductor landscape as we know it today.

Tom’s Hardware · Jan 26, 2024