The Latest Breaking News from Coal

A cooling tower collapse has taken another generation unit offline at a major Queensland coal power plant which already has one unit out of action until April.

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting on wildlife, farm animals and people as early as the 1950s, with launching the modern environmental movement.

Letícia Hordones, 26, and 21-year-old Júlia Noara died after crashing head-first into a lorry carrying coal that had reportedly overturned on a highway in Brazil

A Turkish court ordered the formal arrest of eight people in relation to an explosion in a coal mine that killed 41 people in October, state-owned Anadolu news agency said late on Monday.