A monumental discovery in the Andes Mountains promises to reshape the future of mining in South America. Geologists have ...

Coal mining in the area has taken on different forms since the late 1800s. At one stage, the Springfield colliery was supplying coal to the nearby Klip Power Station, at the time the largest steam ...

The mine is expected to produce about 600,000 tons of coal a month, over a life of around 30 years. Coal mining in the area has taken on different forms since the late 1800s. At one stage, the ...

There has been "epic mismanagement" of the UK's biggest former open cast coal mine, a new report has found, including the company which owns it failing to meet a pledge to restore the site after ...

German coal mines spew 184 times more methane than what the country reports to the United Nations, according to a new analysis by Ember. The energy think tank used methodology developed by ...

A new analysis by Ember finds that German coal mines spew 184 times more methane than what the country reports to the UN.

A bucket-wheel excavator at the Hambach open-cast lignite mine, operated by RWE AG, in Hambach, Germany, on Friday, April 8, 2022. Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck last week said the country ...

A 605-MW project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe's largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot.

Anti-coal campaigners are in court today in a final attempt to block the extension of a coal mine at Aberpergwm in south Wales.

Less than a year after German coal giant LEAG unveiled plans to transform its open-cast mines into wind and solar farms, concerns are mounting that it and other lignite miners are exploiting an ...

German police on Tuesday were forced to carry Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg away from a demonstration condemning the expansion of a coal mine in the village of Lützerath.

German authorities detained Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday amid protests at a coal mine in the country.