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Thick white smoke streams out of the earth and a rotten-egg smell fills the air at the Wuda coal fields in China's Inner Mongolia region.
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Workers transport coal in carts at China's Ruqigou coal field in the nation's west October 29, 2008.(Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Smoke billows from a crack in the earth, a sign of an underground coal fire at the Ruqigou coal field, on October 29, 2008. An unidentified Chinese man stands near the crack. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Smoke pours from rocks along a hillside in Ruqigou, China, where an underground coal fire has been burning for more than a century. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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The glow of an underground coal fire is visible through surface rocks at Ruqigou, China, on October 29, 2008. China has scores of out-of-control coal fires. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Smoke from underground coal fires dims the horizon at the Wuda coal fields in China's Inner Mongolia on October 30, 2008. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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