It's a stark image in 2023: Police in riot gear flooding a village, pulling people out of houses and tearing down structures to make way for the arrival of excavating machines to access the rich ...

Photo taken on July 15, 2025 shows themed installation at inner port of Duisburg for the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, in Duisburg, Germany. (Xinhua/Wang Xi) Photo taken on July 15, ...

The village of Mühlrose in Germany’s far east has stood since the 13th century through wars, fires, ... Mühlrose will be wiped off the map to make way for a coal mine.

The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.

Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, a milestone marking the end of a 200-year-old industry that once fuelled the country's economic growth but lost the battle against cheaper ...

Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, turning the page on two centuries of mining history in the Ruhr region that helped fuel the country's post-war "economic miracle".

LEAG's lignite coal mines will be among the last still operating in Germany, after Berlin struck a 2.6 billion euro deal with energy firm RWE , opens new tab in the western state of North Rhine ...