From Coal to Culture
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This old mining town in the northeast of England used to be a grimy industrial wasteland. Now it's becoming a gleaming cultural center and -- who would have thought it? -- tourist destination
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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Una commedia ambientata nella citta' dei Sassi di oggi
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 12--Flip a switch and the lights come on -- no thinking required. But think about what happens on the other end of that switch. To generate some of the power for that light, it takes a plant burning coal miles away.
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KAYFORD MOUNTAIN, W. Va  - Larry Gibson's tiny house sits in a green oasis on top of the Appalachian peak his family has called home for 230 years. The setting would be peaceful if not for the roar of machinery scraping away the surrounding mountain in search of coal.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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In corso a Roma conferenza mondiale Coaltrans
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- A small Illinois town was chosen as the site of the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-burning plant Tuesday by the public-private alliance carrying out the project. Construction of the plant continues to be delayed, however, by concerns over its costs.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.
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Harry MosesÂs entertaining documentary portrays the debate between connoisseurship and science as a culture war.
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The discovery of four fossil skeletons of human ancestors in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, offers a look at a species in transition.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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LIMA, Peru  - While workers at Peru's huge Camisea  energy project were busy laying the high-tech gas pipeline from  the southern jungle to Lima earlier this year, archeologists in  the area were marveling at something a little less  state-of-the-art: ceramics.
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Beijing to turn coal gas plant into industrial relics park    BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Beijing plans to build a coal gas plant, a major polluter of the national capital, into an industrial relics park in an effort to honor its "Green Olympics" commitment.
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The new permanent exhibition on human origins at the American Museum of Natural History merges notable achievements in paleontology and genetics.