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Red handed: A truck loaded with coal is spotted inside the Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in South Wales on May 24, months after it was ordered to stop operating Credit: UVAG/Coal Action Network

1 Jun 2023 5 minute read

Britain’s great coal scandal

The UK’s largest opencast coal mine has ‘illegally’ extracted 300,000 tonnes of coal after being ordered to close. ...

10 Apr 2022 4 minute read

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More coal won’t fix the UK’s energy crisis

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, plans to expand a coal mine in South Wales are being touted as a way to solve...

Two chairs sit by the side of an empty road. Both have teddies on them.

30 Dec 2021 6 minute read

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Stay or go: villagers vs big coal

Germany may have committed to phasing out coal but that hasn’t stopped mine expansion plans which threaten two villages....

19 Oct 2021 7 minute read

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How we stopped coal in England

Isobel Tarr of Coal Action Network speaks to activists at the forefront of the decades-long movement to end...

A child demonstrates against the mining industry's claims that the West Cumbria Mine (and others) are carbon neutral. Credit: Coal Action Network

10 Feb 2021 6 minute read

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A new frontier for UK coal?

Daniel Therkelsen of Coal Action Network looks at how plans for the mine made it this far and how local...

Extinction Rebellion demonstrators sit in structures representing ‘canary in the coal mine’ bird-cages as others gather during a protest at Banks Group's open-cast coal mine in Bradley, County Durham, Britain February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Scott Heppell

11 Mar 2020 5 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

An unlikely coalition

Lucy EJ Woods heads to a mining town teaming up with Extinction Rebellion in northeast England.

Fire trucks are seen during a bushfire in Werombi, 50 km southwest of Sydney, Australia, December 6, 2019. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS

3 Jan 2020 4 minute read

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A continent ablaze

The fires currently engulfing much of Australian territory are the product of 30 years’ wilful negligence and greed, argues...

24 Jun 2019 9 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Life after coal

Can we move away from fossil fuels without destroying the communities that rely on them? Sam Adler Bell...

13 Jun 2019 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Defusing the carbon bomb

In order to avoid climate breakdown, over 80 per cent of known fossil-fuel reserves must stay in the ground. Danny...

World’s largest coalmine: Protesters, including First Nations people, blocking the road to Adani’s Abbot Point coal port.

10 Dec 2017 5 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Plan for Australia’s largest coal mine faces struggle

Australia’s Adani mine must be stopped, argue Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret.

An example of the proposed solar plant for Port Augusta.

20 Dec 2017 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

From smoke stacks to solar: Port Augusta

South Australia’s coal-fired powerhouse is going solar, reports ...

25 May 2016 1 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Here and no further, mass action against coal

This photo and video gallery surveys just some of the civil disobedience that recently took place in Germany.

18 Aug 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

The people have the power

An anti-mining action in the Rhineland coalfields brings hopes for climate change activism. Catherine Nadel...

30 Jul 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

‘Paris Pledge’ pushes for coal-industry retirement

Getting the banking sector out of coal can boost ambition at Paris climate summit, says Catalina von Hildebrand....

31 Oct 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

It’s a ‘free’ market… if you invest where we tell you to

Fossil fuel divestment is causing Australia’s elites to sweat, reports Charlie Wood.

22 Jul 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Welcome to the Philippines, welcome to coal country

The power outages caused by Typhoon Rammasun highlight a precarious, and dirty, energy situation, says Iris Gonzales...

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