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 ...

It costs, on average, three times as much to extract a ton of coal in Germany than to import it. Since it first opened 155 years ago, the Prosper-Haniel mine has produced more than 300 million ...

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.

Now, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil from the coal ... ancient "badger otter" is a far cry from today's cuddly-looking critters. Pictured above: a modern river otter in Germany's Bavarian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Centuries-old villages across the country are being bulldozed to make way to mine brown coal — one of the filthiest and cheapest fossil fuels. As the world's biggest brown coal miner ...

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.