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By train or by ship, coal causes trouble

Posted August 16, 2017 by Bob Burton
Tags: accidents, Australia, coal, Energy, Indonesia, pollution, shipping, Taiwan, US, Vietnam

The derailment of 30 coal wagons on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Montana is just the latest in a long list of coal transport accidents.

Coal and coral shouldn’t mix, but they do when ships sink

Posted May 18, 2016 by Bob Burton
Tags: coal, coal shipping accidents, coral, Madagascar, ocean acidification, shipping

Bob Burton. Photo: Andrew Hamilton (Flickr)

Just a few kilometres from the south-western coast of Madagascar – home to part of the world’s third largest coral reef system – the coal-laden New Mykonos has sunk and is slowly breaking apart.