Time: As world leaders gathered in Paris for the opening of the international climate conference on Nov. 30, excavators in a densely forested corner of eastern India were at work extracting coal at what in coming years is projected to become the biggest mine in Asia.
The Magadh project, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, is part of a massive push by the world's third-largest carbon emitter to close the gap between the amount of coal it produces domestically and the amount it's consuming, particularly...