Coal Pollution — Marco Polo & Coal
1275 CE • China
Marco Polo, the Italian traveler, notices black rocks that burn on his journey through China.
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"Entrance to a W. Va. coal mine: a "drift" mine," West Virginia, Lewis Hine, 1908, Courtesy of The Library of Congress, LC-DIG-nclc-01055.
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