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Coal fire related web sites

DLR Coal Fire Research
Sino-German Project Partners of ITC

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Coal fire home page of Anupma Prakash

Zoltán Vekerdy's homepage
Information and links about coal fires

Coal Fire Monitoring and Fighting in China
EARS web site about the Ningxia Coal Fire Project, China

Coal Fire Monitoring and Fighting in China
NITG-TNO pdf file about the Ningxia Coal Fire Project, China

Netherlands Earth Observation NETwork
Environmental monitoring of coal fires in North China Project Identification Mission Report October 1993

Feuer unter China (1999)
Article in the German journal "Der Spiegel" about the numerous coal fires in China

Sunken Fires Menace Land and Climate (2002)
"The New York Times" reports from the impact of coal fires in coal producing countrys. Access it either at NYT home site as web article or at ITC Coal Fire Homepage as scanned article.

How China's scramble for 'black gold' is causing a green disaster (2002)
A report in "The Daily Telegraph" from the coal fields at Ningxia, north west China, on one of the world's little-known environmental catastrophes. Access it either at DT home site as web article or at ITC Coal Fire Homepage as scanned article.

The Fire Below
Spontaneous Combustion in Coal

Fire in the mine
Cherry mine disaster (Illinois) more than ninety years ago

A little piece of "God's Country" that turned to "Hell on Earth...
The coal fire in Centralia Pennsylvania, Columbia County

Centralia Pennsylvania
Information, pictures and links about mine fire in Centralia Pennsylvania, Columbia County

Chronologies of Recent Major Mining Accidents in the United States
MSHA: Mine Safety and Health Administration

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