Coal mines could be used to unlock a brighter, cleaner energy future. A new report by Global Energy Monitor reveals a major ...

The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly detained Tuesday by police at a protest over the controversial expansion of a western Germany coal mine that has become a flashpoint for that ...

Lützerath, about 20 miles west of Dusseldorf, has long been a climate flashpoint in Germany because of its position on the edge of the open-cast lignite coal mine, Garzweiler II. The mine sprawls ...

Germany's Economy and Climate Ministry, led by the environmentally-minded Greens party, made a deal with RWE to address this issue. The company agreed to phase out all coal mining by 2030 instead ...

Wissler criticized an agreement struck last year between the government and utility company RWE to permit mining beneath the village in return for an earlier end to coal use in Germany.

The Zollverein coal mine, where he worked in the area of Essen, Germany, was so clogged with coal dust, he remembers, that people would stir up a black cloud whenever they moved. “It was no pony farm, ...

The cutting of Russian gas supplies to Europe has led Germany to step up coal use, despite its goal to phase it out by 2030. An excavator working at the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine in Germany in ...

police said people broke through their barriers and some got into the Garzweiler coal mine. Some who tried to get to the edge of the mine were pushed back. And German news agency dpa reported that ...