AN UNUSUAL trade between three desperate countries in the central Asian region has meant that water will be bartered for gas and coal. The republics of Kyrgyzstan) Uzbekistan and

Envirocoal may just prove to be a rich find for Indonesia. This extremely clean burning coal from Borneo mined by P T Adaro, an Indonesian and Australian company, has a low content of sulphur

Late in the night of September 26, water from the Katri nullah (canal), flowing past the Jharia coal fields, Dhanbad, breached an embankment I entered 2 mines, after it had inun a nearby

How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?

ALEX C TOOHEY, a chemical engineer, is the chief executive of the World Coal Institute WCI , London. The WCI is a non profit, non governmental association of coal producing enterprises, with memberships from all the 6 continents. The WCI's mission is t

WHAT are the alternatives with us to rectify the imbalance in power generation in the future? To date, we have not only failed to generate power optimally from our existing resources, we have also

An Indian scientist has developed a process to refine low grade coal to prevent its residue of fly ash

Concerned about the pollution from combusting coal to generate power, the departments of science and technology and coal have set up a core group of bureaucrats and scientists to identify clean-coal

The Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board (TNSEB) has been castigated by the Union ministry of coal for trying to import Australian coal to step up power generation. The ministry is worried the high

EMISSIONS of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides play a key role in the formation of acid rain and consequently, the acidification of soils. Production of nitrogen oxides leads to ozone build-up in

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