Tuesday, June 29, 2021

A Coal-Mining 'Monster' Is Threatening To Swallow A Small Town In Germany

The Bagger 288, a bucket-wheel excavator, digs into the beet fields behind the farm of Norbert Winzen to expand Germany

The thousand-year-old farming village of Keyenberg lies in the path of an expanding open-pit mine. Fighting to save the town is about more than Keyenberg. It's also about climate change.

(Image credit: Rob Schmitz/NPR)

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