Globally, nearly 7,000 coal mines, more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants and hundreds of coal rail networks, trucks and port terminals all make up the world’s coal industry. When coal is phased out ...

The sector’s resilience reflects structural shifts in demand and production, with implications for competitiveness, energy ...

Subsidies reached almost R200-billion last year, mostly from increases in Eskom bailouts and carbon tax exemptions, while the renewables subsidy in 2024 was less than 5% of fossil fuel support The new ...

CEO Graham Kerr used a conference session to reflect on the company’s portfolio transformation during his tenure and to ...

Police in Alabama are now trying to determine who murdered Bryant Keith Bates, whose remains were found in a coal bin decades ...

Subsidies reached almost R200bn last year, mostly from increases in Eskom bailouts and carbon tax exemptions, while the renewables subsidy in 2024 was less than 5% of fossil fuel ...

CAPE TOWN, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Finding bullish exporters of thermal coal has been tricky of late given soft prices, lower demand from heavyweight buyers China and India, and for Indonesian miners an ...

As illegal mining spreads through abandoned shafts in South Africa, Catholic religious women risk their lives to rescue girls coerced into sex and early marriages in communities the state struggles to ...

GIRARDVILLE, Pa. – Like coal buried beneath the ground, it can be difficult to find. Girardville measures a mere square mile. But the fading coal town’s crown jewel — attracting presidents, union ...

At Mining Indaba, leaders called for regional integration and value addition, urging Africa to leverage its mineral wealth ...

CAPE TOWN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The headline news that global coal demand reached a record high in 2025 masks some important underlying shifts in how the fuel is being produced, traded and used. The ...

Two of South Africa’s biggest trade unions have rejected an improved 6% salary increase offer from state-owned power utility Eskom, their representatives said o ...