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Published online 22 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.281
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50-year-old fire put out
An underground coal fire has been snuffed out in China after decades of burning. Nature News finds out what happened.
How can there be a fire underground?
This fire was in the Terak coalfield of Urumqi, in the Xinjiang region of China. It was the coal that was on fire — and had been for at least 50 years.
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- 26 Nov, 2007
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