In this Wednesday, June 6, 2018 photo, a man walks over an artificial beach at the Lake Senftenberger See, a former lignite coal pit, in Germany's Lusatia (Lausitz) area, near the city of Senftenberg, ...

If one can believe a recent BBC poll, Germany is the most admired country in the world. Germany’s industrial skill and innovation, from sleek Bosch refrigerators to the global engineering acumen of ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. KEYENBERG, Germany — The first thing Norbert Winzen wants me to know about the machine is that it ...

An outdated law allows coal companies to take private land for lignite mining that is in the “public interest,” even after the country’s highest court ruled that the government must reduce emissions.

Miners hold the last lump of coal during a closing ceremony of the last German coal mine Prosper-Haniel in Bottrop, Germany, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. The end of black coal production marks the end of an ...

Germany has called for a pause in the developing deep-sea mining industry, saying not enough is known about the likely impacts of mining the seabed for battery metals. The world's fourth-biggest ...

Miners attend coal extraction in the Prosper-Haniel coal mine in Bottrop, Germany, on May 14, 2018. Germany is closing one of its last two black coal mines Friday, ending an industry that laid the ...

GROSSRAESCHEN, Germany – As the sun beats down on a small vineyard by the rippling waters of Grossraeschen Lake, there’s little sign of the vast wound that lies beneath. Meuro, the brown-black mine ...

BERLIN (AP) — Straining to hold back tears, their once-white helmets and overalls smeared with dust, seven miners in Germany stepped out of a metal cage Friday bearing the last piece of black coal ...