The Jharia coal field in India has been on fire underground since 1916.
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Some rocks will burn, and others will melt, depending on how they were formed and what minerals they contain.
Rocket launches release hazardous pollutants in the atmosphere’s upper layers.
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The UK space launch failed but it succeeded in releasing hazardous pollutants to multiple layers of the atmosphere.
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For combustion to occur, oxygen must be present. Ammonium nitrate prills provide a much more concentrated supply of oxygen than the air around us.
The car we choose and the energy system we support are linked.
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Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel.
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A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
The Loy Yang station will be the site of a new hydrogen fuel project.
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AGL has announced plans to use coal to make hydrogen fuel at its Loy Yang A station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Wait, isn’t coal made of carbon, not hydrogen? Yes, but here’s how the process works.