India considers net-zero goal around 2050, a decade before China

Britain's remaining coal-fired power plants could enjoy an 11th-hour revival in the early 2020s despite the Government’s drive to cut carbon emissions, if ministers choose not to risk raising household energy prices.

Sale is part of Rio’s planned exit from Australian coal to focus on iron ore, copper and aluminum.

The CLEER (Clean, Low-energy, Effective, Engaged and Remediated) project focuses on water use, energy intensity and environmental footprint, with aggressive targets of a 50% reduction in each area by 2027.

Shanxi Coking will trim around 900,000 tonnes of coke and 360,000 tonnes of chemicals from production during the coming winter months.

Representatives from Elliott have in the last month met with major BHP investors based in London, South Africa and Australia to lay out the activist fund's arguments for an overhaul of the miner.

By tracing the air backwards in time, the scientists found that high-mercury air travelled over the Indonesian archipelago before arriving in Australia.

Sherritt pleaded guilty in the Provincial Court of Alberta to three counts of contravening the Fisheries Act.

The Queensland Government is getting behind a pilot program that, together with an industry group, is hoping to bring thousands of mining equipment and services positions to the Bowen Basin within the next decade.

Of all the new coal generation expected to go online over the next decade, Chinese companies will build nearly half of it.