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Indian Village Vanishing Beneath the Earth

Coal fires slowly eating away at Jharia

By Liam Carnahan,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 31, 2012 5:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Situated atop coal fields that have been burning for decades, sagging houses in India's Jharia village are swallowed whole by the earth, sometimes along with their residents, the Los Angeles Times reports. There's no formal count on how many people have succumbed to...   Read full story »

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