how does coal mining affect the environment

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  Mining’s climate accountability - Nature Geoscience

  202024 · Mineral extraction will play an important role in climate change mitigation and green technologies. But ensuring that the net effect of mining is beneficial requires careful monitoring of ...

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  Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal

  202323 · The health and environmental effects caused by power plant emissions may vary over time and space, from short-term episodes of coal dust blown from a passing train to the long-term global dispersion of mercury, to climate change. Because of different factors like geology, demographics and climate, impacts will also vary from place to place. For …

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  Impacts of Coal Use on Health | Annual Reviews

  This article reviews evidence for the public health impacts of coal across the extraction, processing, use, and waste disposal continuum. Surface coal mining and processing impose public health risks on residential communities through air and water pollution. Burning coal in power plants emits more nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and heavy …

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  FAQ: coal, poverty and the environment | ODI: Think change

  How does coal impact air quality and human health? The use of coal for energy generation is a major source of air pollution, causing illness and death. Burning coal in power plants emits hazardous outdoor air pollutants: particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, mercury and arsenic. Soot pollution (PDF) stirred up during the coal mining …

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  Effects Of Mining on the Environment and …

  2  · The water trigger and the IESC In 2013, the Australian Government amended the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to require CSG and large coal mining developments to obtain federal approval where they would have a ‘significant impact’ on water resources – the so-called ‘water trigger’.

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  Coal mining, economic development, and the natural …

  201571 · Thus, the economic footprint of coal mining has greatly changed in an era when the industry appears to be on the decline. This study investigates whether these changes along with coal’s “boom/bust” cycles have …

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  (PDF) Impact of Coal Mining on Environment - ResearchGate

  2015326 · Mining adversely affects the local environment in that it destroys. vegetation, causes extensive soil erosion and alters microbial communitie s. Coal mining also affects. the global environment ...

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  Coal mining has negative impact on freshwater stream biodiversity

  2018529 · The study reported that streams affected by coal mining had, on average, a one-third reduction in biodiversity and only half of the total organism abundance of unaffected streams. Invertebrate, fish, and salamander species richness (e.g., the number of different species living in the stream) declined by 32%, 39%, and 28%, respectively. The …

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