Brown Coal

Says ING Germany chief economist Carsten Brzeski: "Some weeks ago, we had started to investigate which form the recovery could take from the alphabet soup of options."Will it be a 'V' for a strong rebound, a 'U' for a longer bottom followed by a strong rebound, a 'J' for a…

The turning point came in 2017, when wind-whipped blazes swept through the foothills, jumped a freeway and burned through thousands of homes and businesses, killing more than 40 people.The fires in Northern California’s wine country — followed by an even more deadly inferno in Paradise the following year — led…

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What happened to “the climate election”, where the issue would take over all others?Ireland was among the first countries in the world to declare last year that we are living in “a climate and biodiversity emergency”. Despite having little more than a decade to change how we consume, live, and…

Even when I was excited about the European Union, I was bored by it. It came into my life as an issue after the Cold War ended. Until then, I had rudely brushed aside a friend of mine who insisted, with the desperate passion of the ignored prophet, that it…

Feb 1st 2020 KOZANI AND KARDITSA A CLUSTER OF state-owned power plants in north-western Greece have been spewing smoke and toxic ash over nearby villages for decades. The plants are fuelled by lignite, a dirty brown coal extracted from open-pit mines that s…

POISON. A coal power plant of German energy giant RWE in Neurath, western Germany, on January 29, 2020. Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP BERLIN, Germany – German ministers on Wednesday, January 29 signed off a law to end coal electricity generation that demonstrators and environmentalists say does too little, too late.…

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 as part of efforts by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition to protect the climate and restore its green credentials. The government is spurring a shift toward renewable energy sources such as…

By Markus Wacket and Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 as part of efforts by Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition to protect the climate and restore its green credentia…

The Gates of Hell Turkmenistan In every list of the most WTF things on this planet, this doorway to hell is on it. Burning since 1971, it’s 230 feet wide and was caused by a Soviet drilling rig, that accidentally hit a massive cavern full of natural gas. The ground…