Eastern Germany's mega complex of artificial lakes created from disused coal mines will reach a new milestone this summer.

A major coal mine in Wyoming has received approval to open up a huge new section of federal land for mining. This newly accessible area contains around 14.5 million tons of coal. That is a little more ...

Thousands of European environmental activists are readying to blockade a huge open-pit coal mine in Germany, backed for the first time by the student climate movement launched by Swedish teenager ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coal continues to destroy our community’s health, land, air and water. For decades, the Diné and other tribal communities have ...

Smart acquisitions have allowed China-backed Yancoal to grow its market value by 133 times over the past decade. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil ...

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our ...

The White House is angling to supersize the nation's work on critical minerals. Critics say it's leaving miners in the dust.

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — Sunday marked 16 years since one of the deadliest mine disasters in American history. In 2010, ...

Coal mining and coal-fired power plants have negatively impacted the health and environment of the Diné and other tribal communities. Proposed legislation aims to expand coal mining on public lands, ...