Many of them are in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, where the Hambach mine is located. Germany had hoped to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% in 2020, but that number is more likely to fall ...

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 ...

Yet it is still a rare forest type: according to a 2013 survey, oak-hornbeam forests like Hambach cover only 82,900 acres, or 4.1 percent of the 2 million acres of protected forest in Germany.

Parts of Germany's Hambach forest have been untouched for 12,000 years, but plans to expand a coal mine could make the forest a thing of the past.

ESSEN, Germany (Reuters) - German utility RWE could preserve a forest in the west of the country after a deal to phase-out coal mining and generation, although the cost of doing so would run into ...

Less than an hour from the COP23 summit in Bonn lies an example of Germany’s dirty environmental secret: An ancient forest that is being razed by a coal mine.

Less than an hour from the COP23 summit in Bonn lies an example of Germany’s dirty environmental secret: An ancient forest that is being razed by a coal mine.