Planet China: Fourteenth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. QADIRABAD, Pakistan—Only a few weeks to wrap up a lifetime. The thought crossed Muhammad Imran’s mind and lingered as he prepared in November to depart the country with his family, perhaps for good. Disheartened by Pakistan’s chronic…
As countries continue to strive for increasingly clean, pollution-free sources of energy, China’s plan to transition away from coal is a unique one. According to Interesting Engineering, it is looking into converting coal power plants into nuclear plants. This would involve compact, “meltdown-proof” reactors and use infrastructure already in place at the plants to link…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s…