Mongabay: Burning coal fuels climate change, causes acid rain, and spreads toxic pollutants into the environment, but now a new Greenpeace report warns that coal may also imperil the world’s biggest feline: the tiger. Home to world’s largest population of tigers-in this case the Bengal subspecies (Panthera tigris tigris)-India is also the world’s third largest coal producer. The country’s rapacious pursuit of coal-it has nearly doubled production since 2007-has pushed the industry into tiger territory, threatening…

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