Is the process that is at the origin of coal still existent, why or why not, and where does proof of it exist? Is it correct that today's fungi that attack the wood substance lignin did not exist in ...

The same geologic forces that stitched the supercontinent Pangea together also helped form the ancient coal beds that powered the Industrial Revolution, report researchers. The consolidation of the ...

The evolution of the ability to break down a plant's protective lignin largely stopped the geologic burial of carbon that formed present-day coal deposits—and may provide secrets to making biofuels ...

The fossilized remains of plants that lived from around 360 to 300 million years ago, coal generated nearly half of the roughly four trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed in the United ...

While coal is a non-renewable fossil fuel, I always thought that given enough time, millions and millions of years perhaps, the Earth would produce more coal. This turns out to be completely incorrect ...

It made for a neat story: Question: Why did so much of the world’s coal form during the geologic period we now call the Carboniferous? Answer: Large tree-like plants evolved before fungi evolved the ...

The arrival of mushrooms may have stopped the formation of coal deposits we burn as fuel today. This fuel is actually the fossilized remains of plants that lived from around 360 to 300 million years ...

Todd Hanson recently published “Plymouth — The Putnam County Connection” about the community’s coal and river history and heritage from around 1887 to 1943. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A local ...