Germany plans to destroy this village for a coal mine. Thousands are gathering to stop it. It's a stark image in 2023: Police in riot gear flooding a village, pulling people out of houses and ...

Coal was once the lifeblood of Germany’s economy, providing energy, jobs and a way of life for hundreds of thousands of people. But on Dec. 21, that era — which began during the industrial ...

ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) ... to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.

Germany’s largest hard coal mine: ‘This is our final mission’ By Umair Irfan | 11/30/2016 08:38 AM EST . IBBENBÜREN, Germany — The Germans have a word to describe the long goodbye.

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.

The pastoral village of Lützerath in western Germany will be bulldozed to make way for a coal mine, even as the country accelerates its plans to quit the world’s dirtiest source of energy.

For most people, the top of the mine shaft at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine in Bottrop, Germany, just looks like a big black hole. But Andre Niemann looked into that hole and saw the future. Part 1 ...

In Germany’s Appalachia, the last coal mine is closing. Grist/Getty Images/Janusz's Rumpelkiste. Amelia Urry. Published Nov 29, 2017. Topic Climate + Technology Share/Republish Copy Link ...

After following his father and grandfather into the pits of Germany’s Ruhr valley as a teenager, Andreas Schreiter’s family tradition will end when the country’s last hard-coal mine — the ...

Police evict climate activists from German village slated to become a coal mine. January 11, ... The tiny village has become a symbol of the cost of Germany’s continued dependence on fossil fuels.

The Garzweiler lignite coal mine has been the focal point of environmental protests since Friday, when 40,000 students rallied for more government action against climate change in the nearby city ...

Those are set to expire in 2018, and when they do, they’ll take Germany’s three remaining hard-coal mines with them. One of these mines is Bergwerk Prosper Haniel, about an hour outside the ...