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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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China burns a lot of coal.

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That means the country digs up a lot of coal.

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But in 2014, for the first time in the 21st century, China's coal habit shrank.

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The country dug up 3.7 billion metric tons of the dirty black rock in 2013.

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But last year that figure appears to have dropped to 3.5 billion metric tons.

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And coal imports fell by more than 10 percent.

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These developments are part of the country's new effort against pollution,

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which includes the cutback on coal burning to help reduce choking soot and smog in China's major cities.

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But the trend is also thanks to a slowdown in economic growth, including lower demand for steel for the first time in decades, which in turn lessens the need for coal to fire up the furnaces.

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It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much-anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

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But it's a good sign that China is on track to restrain global warming pollution in the next decade or so, as agreed under a lauded deal with the United States, the world's second largest polluter.

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The U.S.has seen its coal habit shrink too, thanks to increased use of natural gas.

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If the world's top two polluting nations can permanently cut coal, that's good news for a heating planet and billions of pairs of lungs.

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.

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