Within three to four months of publishing their findings, the researchers said coal companies immediately took action to reduce air pollutio
Dec 16, 2025
Trained in air quality mapping, grassroots women leaders monitored air quality across 69 sites in rural areas of Bokaro and Dhanbad in Jharkhand, identifying 26 pollution hotspots.
Despite the awareness about air pollution’s health impacts, the study found that the public health system is unresponsive and inadequate.
The research prompted immediate action with the coal company installing water sprinklers, covering coal loads during transport, and setting up air quality monitors in public places.
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1. Amazon villages build autonomous energy systems after mega-dam failed pledges
“A pilot project in the Tapajós-Arapiuns Reserve is providing 24-hour electricity through an integrated system of solar panels and river-based hydrokinetic turbines [… which] use specialized filter systems and slow-rotation grids designed to generate electricity without harming local river fauna. […] “We have a community freezer that serves the whole community. There’s a system there that works 24 hours, for the internet and for the community freezer.””
2. Mine restoration projects bring hope for bird communities
“[Ecologists] compared bird communities in [former mining] sites restored via the FRA [forestry reclamation approach] with mine sites that had not been actively restored and unmined areas[, … and] found that sites that had only been restored for two to five years prior to the study were already filled with birds[….] His group has also found improvements in water quality as well and more bats and frogs in FRA-restored areas, demonstrating some hope in these heavily degraded landscapes.”
3. World’s largest solar-battery hybrid project powers up in the Philippines
“The first phase of an integrated solar and battery project under construction in the Philippines has been officially synchronised and energised, less than 15 months since groundbreaking and on the way to becoming the world’s largest such project. […] The project will soon begin to export 85 MW of constant power to the local grid, demonstrating the project’s stability and reliability, ahead of a scheduled ramp up in its overall capacity.”
4. Rare blue-faced monkeys seen swinging through remote forest in Vietnam
“A new population census of […] the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, has confirmed that numbers are stable [around 160] in a small forest area known as Khau Ca in northern Vietnam[….] A particularly poignant moment during the survey was the sighting of three infants, spotted with their families. […] “The project has also introduced a range of livelihood activities that provide additional income for local households, helping to reduce their dependence on forest resources.””
5. Robot clean-up crews tackle litter on Europe's seabed
“Guided by AI and supervised by humans, the robots take over much of the work. Their onboard AI system allows them to spot bottles, tires and other debris in camera and sonar images, and distinguish litter from rocks, plants and marine life. […] The surface vessel then sends out a collection drone to retrieve the debris[….] The technology could [also] help detect unexploded mines on the seabed left over from World War II.”
February 8-14 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)
Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning
Singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the Alberta government to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Elections Alberta posted the official OK on its website Monday.
Lund, who has received multiple Juno and Canadian Country Music Association nominations and awards, lives in southern Alberta and has been a vocal opponent of coal mining.
In his application for the petition, he said he's seeking the intervention because mines could threaten land and water in the area.
Construct-class 2-8-0+0-8-2 steam locomotive, Slaibsgloth Coal Mine Railway No.14, ex-G&NE No.1303010₆, pulling a coal train out of the coal pits ca. 2324 AD.
These locomotives were built on planet Gymnome for the Glooiw & North Eastern Railroad in the year 2297 AD, late into the first steam era, and were very successful freight workhorses. After dieselization followed, they were sold to in large batches to various coal mine railroads, where they were popular enough to warrant additional batches.
They saw use through the oil crisis of the 2330s and 40s in mainline service as well as in the mines, and continued to work all the way into 2379 as the last remaining coal burning steam engines on Gymnome (Though by that time oil and biofuel burning advanced steam engines were still in use alongside diesel engines in regular service in a few less developed areas)
The Construct class, like so many Gymnomi Slime locomotives, is a Garratt-type articulated loco, with the boiler slung between two engine units, with a tender atop each engine unit.
This engine has been seen several times in my art:
As a model built by Eaurp Guz
As an even larger model built by Eaurp Guz (and mysteriously with the face of her childhood friend Slamtha) in this Artfight Attack
And in full scale in two varieties in this drawing of two trains passing eachother in a mountainous part of Gymnome.
After making my first model of the Advanced Steam Tank Engine for Train Misconductor, and working on a Thomas the Tank Engine model, the Garratt was my next modelling project.
Here is an early iteration of that.
I picked at the model over the next few months in between other projects, and I had plans to fully model the Southern valve gear too, but that hasn't happened yet, because I realized that the loco was just about the right size to fit into Train Misconductor as a Broad Gauge locomotive!
The model in the game was finished by taking a lot of shortcuts. The detail density didn't have to be nearly as high as planned, so the rest of the detailing and the pixel-art texturing went fairly smoothly.
The engine can be seen in-game here.
Also, check out the steam page for the game!
I wanted to do a nice drawing of the new model, to sort of retcon the inconsistencies of previous drawings and also to put some detail into the engine since that didn't make it into the model.
I made several renders from different angles, but settled on this one:
I traced the locomotive using the vanishing point snap feature in Firealpaca as well as the straight line and ellipse tools. This isn't that unlike how I would approach a normal train drawing, except the sketch layer is replaced with a 3D model.
Here's a look at the line art alone after it was finished. Several of the plumbing details come from the Chinese JS class locos, as they were the original inspiration for Guz's model in the first drawing. The valve gear is Southern valve gear, chosen because it's just a little unfamiliar and alien to people familiar with the more typical Walschearts. The light on the smokebox--which is normally unnecessary on a Garratt--is known on Earth as a "Mars Light." It's a swivelling light that moves in a figure eight shape so it looks like it's flashing, but also so that it can be aimed by the engineer by controlling the speed of the swivelling.
Several major elements had to be modelled from scratch. The pivot on the front engine, alongside its ball-jointed plumbing, the reverse lever, and the steam pipe which delivers exhaust steam from the high pressure cylinders at the back, through a gap in the firebox ashpans, and into to low pressure cylinders at the front.
Then the environment was drawn--using the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railroad as a reference. The environment is done fairly simply so as not to distract (me) from the foreground, but is detailed enough to get across the setting. This is one of the moodier pieces I've done, taking place on an overcast day in Slaibsgloth.
Then the loco was colored
And weathered, referencing the Sandaoling locos, previous drawings of the engine, and the game model's texture.
Then the loco was rendered, yielding the finished result above.
1949 - Paul Robeson sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish miners
Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949) The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh.
Robeson was a renowned (and often persecuted) left-wing political activist and he made several visits to British mining communities.
On this occasion he sings "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" for miners in the canteen, a song about the American trade unionist who was framed on a murder charge and executed in 1915.
Robeson had long been something of a hero to the British mining community, ever since he starred in the film Proud Valley (d. Pen Tennyson, 1940) as an American sailor stranded in Cardiff who finds work in a Welsh colliery (the newsreel opens with a short clip from the film).
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Center for Biological Diversity: CHARLESTON, W.Va.— A federal court ruled today that the federal government’s attempts to undercut Endangere
Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:
A federal court ruled today that the federal government’s attempts to undercut Endangered Species Act protections for the sake of coal mining were illegal. Coal mines will now be required to follow the law and ensure their activities don’t harm protected plants and animals.
“This is an incredibly important victory for the streams and rivers of Appalachia and the people and wildlife who rely on them,” said Jared Margolis, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “For too long regulators have allowed coal mining to devastate wildlife. This decision will require coal mines to fully account for their threats and harms and do more to ensure that imperiled wildlife aren’t pushed to extinction for dirty fossil fuel profits.”
The decision was issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and invalidates the federal government’s unlawful attempt to streamline how coal mines comply with the Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices sued the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2023 for failing to protect highly imperiled wildlife from the devastating harms of coal mining. The court today agreed, finding the agencies failed to implement required protections for species, putting wildlife at great risk.
Coal mines had been allowed to rely on a watered-down process that did not require an analysis of the harm they actually cause and were operating without limits on the extent of that harm. The Endangered Species Act requires such analyses to ensure that wildlife won’t be lost forever. The court found that the government’s process wasn’t consistent with the law and vacated the nationwide biological opinion that coal mines in many states used to avoid the more thorough analysis and implementation of mitigation measures that are essential to protect wildlife.
piggybacking on your post about blair mountain, a lesser known coal strike was the pittston strike, that happened primarily in southwest virginia in 1989 and 1990.
it started because pittston coal company terminated healthcare for retired miners, widows of miners, and disabled miners. it was almost a year of straight civil disobedience, as it lasted until about february 1990. it was mostly in dickenson county, wise county, and russell county virginia. my papaw worked for moss 3 mine in dickenson county, and therefore almost my entire family participated in the strikes. my mother walked out with her senior class to protest at the courthouse, my aunt protested, and my papaw loved some jack rocks.
even sister bernie kenny, a missionary who brought healthcare to the hollers of southwest virginia, would go 10 in a 25 driving in front of coal trucks. there are a couple documentaries out on youtube about it, and many news clips, and i recommend everyone to research it!
sorry for the rambling lol i feel so strongly about pittston since it happened in my backyard
do NOT be sorry, you are not rambling. this is so important!! thanks for taking time to share about it. wow. your kin made history :') thank yall for fighting for us
(as an aside, i was looking into more about it and i wanted to point out what google search results were showing because ugh)
coal mine violence fuck off. notice the domain name on the only one speaking negatively
I just saw your post about western North Carolina. I've been following the situation (mostly through social media) and I'm devastated. This part of the country has always been one of my very favorites to visit (I'm in Georgia) and I want to help if you know of any mutual aid or organizations? I donated to the Red Cross but thought I would ask if you had any suggestions. I'm so sorry this is happening to y'all
i included resources and donation links at the bottom of this post
the great smoky mountains (appalachians) are the most visited national park in the united states, having received over 13 million visitors in 2023. despite this, its residents are hated or at least largely ignored by the majority of the united states. they are portrayed as hillbillies and conservatives that deserve nobody’s time. this is far from the truth. appalachians have been mistreated by the government and general populace for generations. they are given next to nothing and expected to be able to survive that way. it’s disgusting.
everyone who is not from appalachia , i recommend reading more about just how much it and its residents has been abused by the united states government. even reading through the wikipedia article on the social and economic stratification in appalachia can be helpful in understanding how fucked up this area has become due to the abuse of capitalism. i urge everyone to do some research on the coal mining industry when you have the time. not many people know just how bad it really was, and just how much it’s affected the mountains and the people in them.
here are some interesting articles i found on a quick search:
“Coal Mining in Appalachia” by The Moonlit Road
“A History of Appalachian Coal Mines” by Kenneth Lasson
“Coal’s Legacy in Appalachia: Lands, Waters, and People” by Carl E. Zipper and Jeff Skousen
“Nearly 60 years after the war on poverty, why is Appalachia still struggling?” by Dr. Abigail R. Hall Blanco
“Human Rights in Appalachia: Socioeconomic and Health Disparities in Appalachia” by Evan Smith
“Passive, Poor, and White? What People Keep Getting Wrong About Appalachia” by Elizabeth Catte
“Culture, Poverty, and Education in Appalachian Kentucky” by Constance Elam
