So many personal essays have been written about overcoming the trauma of being the Asian kid with the stinky lunch.

Emperor of the Seas, Jack Weatherford’s new history of Kublai Khan’s reign, brings to life a thriving – and rather civilised ...

Peansylvania is the condensed gMes thrown off in changi.g the coal of Eastern Pennsylvania into anthracite. With the view of throwing light upon this subject, and to gil'e what I conceive to be ...

Artist and author Eric Stanway recalls that his childhood in the old industrial city of Manchester, England was a smoky and ...

Thirty years ago, more than 800 waste coal piles marred the Pennsylvania landscape, poisoning streams and emitting gaseous odors, including the rotten-egg smell of hydrogen sulfide. Then, as part of a ...

By distilling bituminous coal in retorts to obtain gas for illumination, or by burning it in kilns or pits, the residue left behind is called coke, which is simply coal charcoal, and is nearly ...

Coal was central to the war effort. It not only kept people warm but powered industry, railways and shipping. After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company were some of the largest employers of convict laborers. Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, suffocation ...

“Coal Drops Yard needs to totally blend into the space around, to become a genuine byword for exciting modern London, a neighborhood amid an era of generic townscapes. If you can smell a whiff ...

As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...

The Bundestag and Bundesrat want to decide on a gradual phase-out of coal in Germany by 2038 at the latest. Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa (Photo by Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty ...

The coal industry continues to be one of the world’s largest suppliers of energy. In the United States alone, about half a billion short tons of coal are converted to energy every year.