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India's coal rush threatens to make global warming irreversible
2014-11-26 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brisbane Times: Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India's coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents. But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India's cities, already among the world's most polluted, even more unlivable, scientists say. "If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we're all...
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