Today in History for Jan. 9: In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia ...

German officials said that the death toll from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany had risen to ...

KABUL: Rescuers on Sunday freed 22 miners who had been trapped for hours in a collapsed coal mine in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said, with no serious injuries reported.

(Bloomberg) -- German Economy Minister Robert Habeck raised further doubts over the country’s plans for an early phase-out of coal-fired power generation. Asked at an industry conference in ...

The Russian military’s offensive near Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has forced the suspension of coal operations at a critical mine run by Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest private company. The mine ...

Germany looks likely to fall behind in its push to phase out coal power plants by 2030 after a plan to expand gas-fired alternatives was canceled. While Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government ...

while existing mines will be given until April 2027, the ministry said. China’s 3,000 coal mines are responsible for around 40% of the country’s methane emissions, with a similar amount ...

A large expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been given the go-ahead by the federal government, without a federal impact assessment. The Impact Assessment Agency of ...

"The most important thing for us was to see with Germany how to build a good mine, how to cultivate the land. Our students will be able to come to Germany for further training, but German students ...

But the decision by policymakers and regulators in the US and other OECD nations to make the approval of new mines near-impossible starting in the 1970s put an end to that, enabling China to move ...

STILFONTEIN - Illegal miners occupying an abandoned shaft in Stilfontein have made more demands as an operation to retrieve them from underground enters another week. It’s been almost a month ...