An outdated law allows coal companies to take private land for lignite mining that is in the “public interest,” even after the country’s highest court ruled that the government must reduce emissions.

The protest started cheerfully enough on Wednesday, with music blaring and flags flying even under the driving rain. Then the police arrived, decked out in riot gear and backed by bulldozers, ready to ...

Take a calm 3D virtual tour through Hohenschwangau Village in Bavaria, Germany. Surrounded by lakes and mountains, this ...

For years, activists tried to save tiny Lützerath from being razed to make way for the expansion of an open-pit coal mine. This past week, the police moved them out. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...

When looking at a map of Austria, from a distance, it looks as though its borders are simple - Germany and Czechia to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south and ...