A fight over the last sliver of a 12,000-year-old forest is polarizing German politics. RWE AG, one of Europe’s largest power generators, has petitioned to expand its open-pit Hambach coal mine ...

Steffen says the coal beneath the forest is critical for ensuring ... lignite will remain in the ground after mining operations cease. “I’ve known Hambach for decades, before the mine.

Hambach Forest in western Germany has become a symbol of resistance to coal mining, but its days may well be numbered. Can protesters save Germany's green image as an environmental and climate ...

The community in Hambach forest was made of about 60 elaborate ... for action "Ende Gelände" managed to get into the coal mine. Police officers and private security block their way to a digger.

BERLIN-- German news agency dpa is reporting that hundreds of police have entered a forest that protesters are trying to stop from being chopped down for a coal mine. The agency reported that ...

Every year since 1978, the mine has been allowed to fell a section of forest to access the lignite, or “brown coal,” beneath. As a result, the Hambach woodland has now shrunk to less than 10% ...

In Germany, thousands protested on Sunday against the planned expansion of a coal mine in the ancient Hambach Forest. The expansion would require clearing the forest, which has been occupied by ...

Some 50,000 people gathered in the Hambach Forest near the western ... demonstrations against the plans to raze the forest to build a coal mine had their spirits lifted after a court ordered ...

Panel members from three environmental groups, an organization promoting renewable energy and a residents’ association visited the Hambach forest Monday, where anti-coal activists have clashed ...

Hambach forest has become a focus of environmental protests against the expansion of a vast mine that supplies much of the coal used in nearby power plants.