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With oil prices and pollution levels soaring, China is on a mission to reduce its dependence on oil. While the country still relies heavily on industrial-age resources like coal (to produce electricity), alternative energy sources are under development...
...were surreptitiously making to help boost their meager food supply, and found an array of microphones instead. On another occasion, they traded dozens of socks they had saved over many months for a small fishing boat. Once, they swam across a river at night to steal a bag of coal tar from a government construction site. "We used the coal tar to repair our boat, which we then used for fishing in the middle of the night," Jenkins said in his statement. "To steal something from the North Korean government is immediately punishable by death. We all knew...
...conducted by the University of North Carolina at Asheville found that in 21% of the women of childbearing age tested, ages 16 to 49, mercury levels exceeded the EPA's recommended limit. What's the cause? The biggest single factor was seafood consumption. The nation's biggest mercury polluter? Coal-burning power plants...
...Number of coal miners feared dead from a gas explosion last week in central China's Henan province...
...right-wing Law and Justice party submitted the motion following a series of high-profile murders. Surveys show that 77% of Poles support the death penalty for the most serious crimes. Mining Tragedy CHINA The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in central Henan province continued to rise, with 77 confirmed fatalities and hopes fading of finding any of the 71 missing alive. China's mining industry is notoriously dangerous; 4,153 miners were killed in the first nine months of this year. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN? Ostalgia Calls Trabant fan Graham Goodall is seeking...