China aims to put out 50-year-old coal fires

Foreign Policy Public Health Blog
One of the world's less noticed ongoing ecological catastrophes, the underground coal fires that have been roaring in Northern China since the early 1960s burn somewhere between 20 and 200 million tons of coal per year. Spread out over nearly 10 miles Read More...

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Posted Jun 09 2010, 07:49 AM by FP Passport
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