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A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road due to very hot weather in New Delhi, India
Environment
Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
In this Oct. 17, 2014, photo, a worker walks at power plant area in Cirebon, Indonesia. 
Energy
Indonesia poised to ease export ban on thermal coal
A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa
Climate Change
World leaders agree to help South Africa phase out coal
In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Big Fix
What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal
A man wearing a protective face mask and hat walks past the London Stock Exchange Group building
Top of The World
OECD predicts worst non-wartime recession in 100 years; Britain marks 2 months without burning coal for electricity
Kentucky mining supply company
Environment
After coal: A new book and documentary chronicle ‘stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales’
The San Nicolas mine in Spain's northern region of Asturias is the last working coalmine in all of Spain. At its peak, it employed around two thousand people — today, about two hundred people work there.
Climate Change
Spain’s coal miners continue to wait for their country’s ‘Green New Deal’
The tops of buildings are barely visible through a thick layer of smog.
Climate Change
Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal
A man wearing a hard hat is silhouetted against old heavy windowpanes in a factory.
Climate Change
Poland is a coal country. But for how long?
A man in mining gear exits a shaft. Signs in Polish flank the opening.
Climate Change
Polish artists turn coal into ‘black gold’ as the mining industry shifts
forest
Environment
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
Wood scraps
Environment
The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US
Miners leave after working the final shift at Kellingley Colliery
Environment
Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?
The West Virginia State Capitol building in Charleston sits on the Kanawha River, which is fed in part by the Elk River — the main water supply for nearly 300,000 of the state's residents.
Science
Documentary uncovers contaminated truths behind water crisis in West Virginia, other locations
A man leans out of the door of his house down the street from large coal power plant smokestacks in Beijing.
Health
Coal plant emissions damage infant DNA, a new study shows
For years, Shanghai has featured some of China's worst air pollution. Recent initiatives by the Chinese government, though, have begun to clean up some of the problem.
Economics
With the US pursuing fossil fuels, alternative, renewable forms of energy could be an even bigger boon to China
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.
Economics
Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal
A hill of coal sits under a shelter at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine. The mine is closing after 150 years.
Environment
In Germany, miners and others prepare for a soft exit from hard coal
Coal
Science
Another way to look at the fossil record? By examining coal.
coal ash pollution
Science
In a Kentucky lake, fish tell the story of long-term coal ash pollution
A section of the Hambach lignite mine in Germany's Rhineland coal fields, whose coal-fired power plants, run by power giant RWE, are one of Europe's largest sources of CO2 emissions.
Environment
Germany talks a good game on climate, but it’s still stuck on coal
Power plant
Environment
Navajo power plant likely to close, despite Trump’s promises to save coal
Employees row a boat as they examine solar panel boards at a pond in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, in this March 16, 2016 photo.
Can Chinese pragmatism help save the planet?
Full Episode
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
President Trump shakes hands with a coal miner
Environment
Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
Trump coal supporter
Conflict
Coal country is pinning its hopes on Trump
China says it will invest another $361 dollars in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on previous massive investments. The country already has the largest capacity of solar p
Environment
Donald Trump sees the future in coal. China sees the future in renewables. Who’s making the safer bet?
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
Avon Lake power plant
Environment
Pollution from America’s power plants is a deadly serious problem, a new study shows
An engraving by William Miller of Newcastle in 1832
Environment
Newcastle University cuts its ties to coal
London Fog
Environment
What’s the story behind the famous London Fog?
After years of dirty development, China is reducing its reliance on coal, and embracing cleaner energy options.
Kicking China’s Coal Habit
Full Episode
Don Blankenship
Justice
West Virginia’s former ‘King of Coal’ goes on trial
Powder River Basin
Environment
Activists to Obama: Stop leasing public land to take out oil, gas, coal
Sammis power plant
Environment
An Ohio power company wants to reverse the deregulation it once fought for
Smog in China
Environment
The reign of ‘King Coal’ may be coming to an end. What’s next?
"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio
Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
Coal in West Virginia
Environment
Appalachia is being hammered by the fall of coal
Coal power plant in New Mexico
Environment
The US Supreme Court will hear a challenge to EPA mercury emissions rule
Scientists with the US Geological Survey gather samples near coal train tracks in the Columbia Gorge near Washougal, Washington. Little research has been done on how coal interacts with the environment.
Environment
Scientists dig into booming coal exports and their effects on wetlands
Shanghai's skyscrapers Shanghai World Financial Center, left, Shanghai Tower, right, and Jin Mao Tower are seen at the financial district of Pudong during Earth Hour in Shanghai March 29, 2014. The buildings were shrouded in pollution.
Environment
China announces its own plan to rein in carbon emissions
Environment
Obama’s climate plan targets coal, but it will face challenges
A sign at a German lignite surface mine warns visitors to stay away from the edge of an overlook. A giant earth-moving machine sits on the far horizon.
Environment
Despite its green image, Germany still digs coal
Environment
At this month’s climate change conference, there’s a new tactic for reining in greenhouse gases
smog cop
Environment
China does a “180” on air pollution policy to combat its deadly smog
terminal
Environment
Environmentalists and coal interests fight it out in a small Washington State election
Environment
Australia’s carbon tax looks to be headed up the smokestack
Paper Trees in Precious Ground
Environment
Pacific Northwest governors urge federal officials to look closely at coal export proposal
Environment
University students rally to get endowments out of fossil fuels
Environment
New report finds people of color disproportionately harmed by coal-fired power
Environment
Locals concerned by local, global impact of increased coal exports
Environment
Powder River Basin coal companies eyeing Asian markets
Environment
Coal country incensed at what it sees as Obama’s overreach on coal regulations
Environment
Iceland’s president weighs in on impact of rapidly disappearing Arctic ice
Business, Economics and Jobs
VIDEO: Spanish coal miners strike, galvanize public support
Environment
Scotland’s wind turbines less eco-friendly than they appear
Environment
Proposed EPA regulation will make it difficult for new coal power plants to be approved
Environment
Thousands of deaths caused by China’s coal energy
Business, Economics and Jobs
Helping kids escape coal mining’s shadow