Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: Despite some recent rain, scores of fires are continuing to burn across Australia. And there is still a lot of fire season to go. Millions of Australians have already been affected by the unprecedented blazes. And as NPR's Nathan Rott reports, some hope this will change the country's relationship with one of its biggest and most controversial exports - coal. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: Unlike in the U.S., coal is still king in Australia. The country generates roughly three-quarters of its electricity by burning the carbon-heavy fossil fuel. Here in the U.S., that figure is closer to one-quarter. But the real place that you'll see coal's power in Australia is in the country's list of exports. ROD CAMPBELL: Australia has a larger share of the traded coal market than Saudi Arabia has of the traded oil market. ROTT: Rod Campbell is with the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank down under. CAMPBELL: So we are essentially the Saudi
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