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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 196, 2025
The 3rd International Conference and Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Limnology Society (SMILS III)
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| Article Number | 02001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Paleolimnology Insight for Informed Inland Water Management | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202519602001 | |
| Published online | 21 November 2025 | |
Spontaneous coal fires in heaps and beyond – a forgotten factor of the dynamics of climate change
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
* Corresponding author: lkruszewski@twarda.pan.pl
Spontaneous coal fires are known from both post-coal mining waste-rock heaps and natural geoenvironments. They represent a still not fully scientifically encompassed phenomenon. They are very difficult to be fully contained, thus sustaining long-time emissions in the heaps. Some of them may burn for 70 years and more. As a worldwide issue, both from environmental and human safety point of view, these fires pose a forgotten factor of the dynamics of coal fires, as they add to the worldwide CO2 emissions' budget. However, CO2 is just a tip of an iceberg in these emissions, as shown here by the example of the Upper Silesian heaps of Poland.
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