Word: coale
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...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors-the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...someplace"-in our case, straight into a big gold mine where giant earth-digging machines belch fumes and wildcatters pan in acrid ditches. (Mining is Mongolia's most valuable industry, though most Mongolians work in agriculture. Pollution is a problem around Ulan Bator, especially from the burning of soft coal in power plants...
Natsource trades not only standard commodities like coal and natural gas but also a new currency known as greenhouse-gas credits. These credits represent, in effect, the right to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, methane or other gases thought to contribute to global warming. Such credits trade in earnest in nations like Britain and Denmark, which have capped emissions from such sources as factories and power plants. And the credits are trading on an experimental basis in the U.S., as industries anticipate the eventual imposition of similar emission limits here...
...uranium a year. That's 20% of the world's annual production, enough to run 40 standard 1,000-MW reactors for a year. That much uranium can satisfy fully 2% of the world's electricity demand--as much as would be provided by 140 million tons of coal (twice Canada's annual production) or 450 million bbl. of oil (more than twice Qatar's annual production). Cameco expects to take 585 million lbs. of uranium out of McArthur River during the next 25 years or so--not counting a second ore zone, not yet fully delineated, a few hundred...
...darkness, with a young mother sitting near a baby's cradle, reading aloud to an older woman by candlelight; and Van Gogh's 1885 The Potato Eaters, his first major figure painting, so dark that its five peasants, seated at a table beneath a gaslight, seem covered in coal dust. That palette of gray, black and bottle-green marked Van Gogh's somber style ("Painting peasants is a serious business," he observed) until he moved to Paris at the beginning of 1886 and, as the show's curators note, "underwent one of the greatest transformations in the history...