Vast coal swamps stretched across the lowlands to the west of the rising mountains. By the end of the Carboniferous, the Earth's landmasses were moving toward a single, global supercontinent ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.

Invertebrate Paleontology; Carbonate Sedimentology; Paleozoic Coal Swamps; Measuring Mg/Ca ratios of permineralized plants and marine invertebrates (echinoderm crinoids) found in Late Pennsylvanian ...