Voters in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, go to the polls on Feb. 23 in what marks the first elections since Berlin ...

Bagger 288, built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or ...

German media reports that all available coal power stations in the country have been activated. The decision was made due to ...

The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal ...

At the Hambach open-pit mine on the edge of Germany’s former industrial heartland, the ground shakes as a giant wheel ...

And yet it is worth paying close attention. Germany could be the canary in the coal mine for Western societies. Most of our neighbors and friends face the same troubles: the costs of transforming ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's power plants run on hard coal remain an important back up to guarantee supply when volatile wind and solar power are not available, coal importers lobby VDKi said in a ...