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Viewfinder: A Former Coal Mine Is Flooded to Create an Artificial Lake

A couple watches as water gushes from a pipe into the former Cottbus Nord open-cast coal mine in order to create the Cottbuser Ostsee artificial lake on April 24th, 2019, near Cottbus, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: The Closing of the Last Coal Mine in Germany’s Appalachia

Coal miners give German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier a symbolic final chunk of coal in a ceremony at Schloss Bellevue presidential palace on April 3rd, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Coal Miners Gather in Poland

Coal miners from Poland's Pniowek coal mine carry a painting of Saint Barbara on Barbórka, their annual day of tribute to Barbara, from the mine to their local church on December 4th, 2018, in Pawlowice, near Wodzislaw Slaski, Poland.

Pacific Standard Staff

Jim Probst and his two grandchildren, Eva (right) and Elliot.

Environment

Meet the Retired Furniture Maker Fighting for Climate Justice—and Coal Miners’ Future—in West Virginia

Jim Probst has dedicated the last five years to building a climate movement that's equally concerned with local coal miners' well-being as it is with the consequences of coal mining itself.

Greta Moran

Tyler Childers performs onstage during 2018 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 28th, 2018, in Indio, California.

PS Picks: Tyler Childers and Music That Reminds You of Home

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Max Ufberg