‘China now consumes nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined. And perhaps it always did: it seems coal was routinely burned 3500 years ago in what is now China – the earliest evidence we have for the practice,’ – NewScientist.
Research recently reported in NewScientist by ANSTO’s Head of Institute for Environmental Research, Professor John Dodson, reveals insights into the history of burning coal in China. A practice that goes back much further than was originally thought.