Coal trucks and locomotive preserved as a monument at Ny Alesund, Svalbard, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Giant truck hauling 240 tons of coal in the Black Thunder Opencast Coal Mine in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, United States of America, North America

Lignite surface mine. Balikpapan Bay, East Kalimantan, Borneo. Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

The Glentaggart open cast coal mine to a roadhead for onward transport by road in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

Trucks carrying highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Trucks carrying highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Trucks carrying highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

Trucks haul highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang province on the Chinese Russian border, China, Asia

Trucks carrying highly polluting low grade coal from an open cast coal mine near Heihe, Heilongjiang, China, Asia

Lorry taking coal to a coal fired power plant in Dongsheng, Inner Mongolia, China, Asia

The Beltana number 1 mine, an open cast or drift coal mine managed by Xstrata coal in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Lorry taking coal to a coal fired power plant in Dongsheng, Inner Mongolia, China, Asia

Lorry taking coal to a coal fired power plant in Dongsheng, Inner Mongolia, China, Asia

Aerial view of an open-pit lignite mine, Lorries transporting brown coal, Schoeningen, Lower Saxony, Germany