Coal

Earth News

‘Victory’ as Türkiye cancels major coal plant expansion ahead of COP31

Türkiye’s last planned coal project was cancelled due to public pressure – but a new one has been announced.

14/07/2026

Europe News

Ukrainian women bolster coal mining workforce to aid energy supply

Our international correspondent Valerie Gauriat travelled to south-eastern Ukraine to meet the women who have recently joined the efforts to secure critical energy supply — in the coal mines.

20/02/2025

Culture news

How Poland’s historic coal mine region is turning towards jewellery

Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and transforming it into pieces of jewellery infused with the local ethos.

28/01/2025

Poland

A third coal miner dies in Poland after a methane explosion

The victims were among 16 miners injured at the Knurow-Szczyglowice coal mine on Wednesday, when methane gas ignited about 850 metres below ground level.

26/01/2025

Earth News

South African court rules plans for new coal power are unlawful

Civil society organisations said the government’s plan to add 1500MW of new coal-fired power was expensive, unnecessary, and a limitation of children’s right to a healthy environment.

06/12/2024

Earth News

‘A huge victory’: UK court blocks plan for new deep coal mine

The developer’s claim that it would be a ‘net zero mine’ is legally flawed, according to the ruling.

16/09/2024

Earth News

Wales is our Green European Country of the Month

Though it may be small, Wales is one country making moves on climate action.

31/10/2023

Ecotech

These flooded coal mines are being used to heat hundreds of homes

Abandoned coal mines are providing a surprisingly potent source of zero-carbon energy in Europe.

14/10/2023

Earth News

Grandparents among activists defending Turkish forest from coal mining

With the world’s eyes on Rhodes, campaigners point out the irony of trees being felled for coal across the Mediterranean Sea in Türkiye.

28/07/2023

Earth News

Fact check: Do solar panels really struggle in the heat?

Britain’s resort to coal power wasn't because solar panels can't handle the heat, say campaigners, as temperatures topped 30C.

13/06/2023

Earth News

European nature threatened by fossil fuel companies, report reveals

Fossil fuel operations are ongoing in hundreds of nature conservation areas, a report has revealed.

10/05/2023

Earth News

Activists defending German village from coal mine undettered by police

Activists say demolishing the village to extract the coal beneath would cause huge greenhouse gas emissions.

13/01/2023

Germany

Climate activists pledge to defend German village from being bulldozed

Thousands of climate activists vowed to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed to make way for the expansion of a nearby coal mine

08/01/2023

Earth News

Why the Cumbria coal mine ‘isn’t wanted’ by even the UK’s steelmakers

The mine will also produce an estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

08/12/2022

Earth News

Renewable energy set to overtake coal in the US for the first time

More than a fifth of all energy in the US will come from hydropower, wind and solar this year, but it still has a long way to go before hitting its climate targets.

24/11/2022

Earth News

G20 leaders agree to keep 1.5C warming target ‘within reach’

The statement of intent by the world’s biggest economies - and emitters - may provide a boost to bogged down negotiations at COP27.

16/11/2022