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 ...

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 ...

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 expansion of a coal mine.

Their protest was too late. Last week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West Germany’s coal and employ more than 60,000 miners ...

The deal called for RWE to close its coal mines in 2030, eight years earlier than originally planned. That plan would spare five other villages and three farmsteads once slated for demolition.

ERKELENZ, GermanyERKELENZ, Germany — Thousands of people demonstrated ... Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. There were standoffs with police as some protesters ...