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These lignite-fired power plants are among the largest in Germany and Europe. They promote climate change through their CO2 emissions. They cause the highest greenhouse gas emissions of all European power plants. The particulate matter produced also contributes to environmental pollution.
Germany is the world’s eighth-largest producer of coal
Open-pit brown coal mine in Bechatów. The largest earth hole in Europe
Wheel Bucket Excavator Working At Coal Mines
North Rhine Westphafila, Germany – January 01, 2014: RWE group, a german energy company is Europe's largest CO2 polluter burning lignite to produce electrical energy.
Factory, Dirt, drone view, Hungary, Mining
View at the active brown coal day mining site Terra Nova 1 near Elsdorf in Germany.
Picture of coat mine Hambach showing old and new energies
Braunkohletagebau, Germany - brown coal surface mine
Brown coal mine
Aerial view of abandoned open cast mine. Industrial landscape after mining.
Digging excavators in a brown coal mine or lignite mine
Coal on the palm
Coal Extraction in an Open Pit Mine
Garzweiler surface mine, layers and machinery
View at the brown coal open-pit mining site Terra Nova 1 near Elsdorf in Germany.
Aerial view of Halde Haniel - former largest mine dump in the Ruhr area, Germany
Braunkohletagebau, Germany - brown coal surface mine at dusk
Aerial shot of a giant open pit lignite mine Inden in Germany. Large bucket wheel excavator mining machinery. Moody twilight. . North Rhine Westphalia in Germany, western Europe.
Enormous Limestone mine for construction
Bird's-eye view of a quarry near Neu Bamberg/Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate
Cottbus-Nord opencast mine. On the outskirts of Cottbus there are about 83 million tons of recoverable lignite.
Photo taken in Immerath, Germany
Coal mine located near Broke NSW Australia
Aerial view of an open coal mine
Welzow, Landscape of an open pit mine for brown coal exploitation. Destroyed nature caused by human made transformations. No trees and no animals live in the mining area.
View over an old open cast lignite mine, aerial view
Braunkohletagebau, Germany - brown coal surface mine at dusk. Aerial view.
Mining equipment in a brown coal open pit mine near Garzweiler, Germany. Aerial View
View at the active brown coal day mining site Terra Nova 1 near Elsdorf in Germany.
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Lasioglossum_ruidosense,_F,_Face,_UT,_Garfield_County_2014-05-30-14.59.43_ZS_PMax.jpg
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Bombus_fervidus,_f,_back,_National_Arboretum,_DC_2016-04-15-19.46.jpg
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Megachile_xylocopoides,_F,_Side,_Florida_2014-01-14-11.07.jpg
Nomada_superba,_m,_back,_Minnesota_2016-04-16-02.29.jpg
Lasioglossum_channelense,_f,_side,_California,_Santa_Barbara_Co_2015-11-24-10.04.jpg
Hoplitis_simplex,_m,_face,_Charles_Co,_MD_2016-04-15-22.38.jpg
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Osmia_albifrons,_side_2014-07-01-13.56.43_ZS_PMax.jpg
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Osmia_andrenoides,_F,_Side,_Greece,_Aegean_Islands_Lesvos_Mytilene_2015-02-18-12.52.06_ZS_PMax.jpg
Nomada_australis,_M,_Face,_NY,_Kings_County_2014-04-22-16.51.57_ZS_PMax.jpg
Megachile_apicalis,_female,_side_2012-07-10-11.45.jpg
Icteranthidium_grohmanni,_M,_Side,_Greece,_Aegean_Islands,_Lesvos,_Mytilene_2015-02-19-15.07.01_ZS_PMax.jpg
Lasioglossum_pacificum,_F,_Face,_WA,_San_Juan_County_2014-05-30-16.09.23_ZS_PMax.jpg
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