Coal

Extinction Rebellion has a lot to learn from Ende Gelände, the grassroots climate action group that is radical in theory and practice.

New campaign launches to resist a new deep coal mine in Cumbria.

Huge steps are being taken to reduce the UK's dependency on the dirtiest of all fuels; coal.

Villages in Hasdeo Aranya of Chhattisgarh, India, oppose illegal land acquisition and the allotment of coal blocks without consent.

Grassroots opposition is mounting in India as new coal projects displace communities and destroy ancient forests.

Protestors in Pakistan’s Thar Desert continue to fight against new coal projects.

Activists under the banner of Earth First! take on coal mining in the North East of England.

Rising sea temperatures could increase amount of mercury contamination of fish and other food, which harm brain function.

Court win in world-first climate risk case puts future of Poland's Ostrołęka C coal plant in question.

Wales’ last coal-fired power station will close next year, its owner RWE has announced.

The power plant produces four times as much CO2 a year as all Ryanair flights combined.

Australian voters returned the pro-coal government in a stunning upset, prompting soul-searching among Australia’s left wing parties.

Why are coal-fired power stations continuing to buy coal in excess of their projected life span?

Westminster and Scottish Parliament declare a climate emergency – but we must make the radical changes needed to keep to 1.5C of warming.

At the belt and road summit in Beijing, leaders talked up sustainable development, while investors forged ahead with polluting power projects in partner countries

A top politician may have personally benefited from payments made by one of Indonesia’s biggest coal miners to an offshore firm he owned, an investigation by Global Witness alleged.

Slovakia’s first female president will challenge long-standing industrial interests and the financing of coal mining.

The UK Government and industry players are looking to revitalise domestic mining, placing communities and ecosystems under threat.

So what has Germany’s coal commission decided?

Campaigners say it is an opportunity to consign opencast coal extraction ‘to the history books’

Campaigners fighting the world’s biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK’s newest opencast coal mine.

Thinking through the archives of ‘industrial time’ – from Jane Eyre to the IPCC report.

Campaigners 'left with no choice but to take Banks Group to court' over habitat destruction.

HSBC claims to exclude coal but they've left the door open on extraction in Vietnam.