LÜTZERATH, Germany — From the roof of a green farm building, an activist dressed in black made an obscene gesture at police forces below before scooping debris out of the gutter and hurling it ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined an estimated 6,000 protesters in Germany who marched through rain and mud to voice their opposition against the expansion of a coal mine on Saturday.

ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) -- Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the ...

Climate flashpoint 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.

An excavator working at the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine in Germany in August. The prospect of a winter without cheap Russian gas has dampened interest in greener policies. Ingmar Nolting for The ...

ERKELENZ, Germany — Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain on Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the ...

A 1949 letter, recently unearthed from the Bavarian Environment Agency's archive, has led to the rediscovery of Humboldtine samples. The letter indicated the mineral's presence in a coal mine near ...

Germany Environment Germany's Lützerath: The village standing in the way of the last open-cast coal mine By Cécile Boutelet (Berlin (Germany) correspondent) Published on January 11, 2023, at 9: ...

Thousands protest in Germany against coal mine expansion Environmentalists say bulldozing the village to expand the Garzweiler mine would result in huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.

Photo Gallery Thousands protest in Germany against coal mine expansion As the demonstration took place, the clearance of Luetzerath was well advanced.