Anti-Coal Protesters Form Human Chain Across German-Polish Border

GUBEN, GERMANY - AUGUST 23: Activists hold banners and the German, European, and Polish flags in the river Neisse to protest against the expansion of nearby open-pit coal mines form a human chain from Germany into Poland on August 23, 2014 near Gross Gastrose, Germany. Thousands of demonstrators participated in the event to protest against plans by Swedish energy conglomerate Vattenfall and Polish energy supplier PGE to expand open-pit lignite coal mines in the region that would mean razing several villages, including Atterwasch and Kerkwitz in Germany and Grabice in Poland. On the German side the nearby Jaenschwalde power plant is the single biggest emitter of CO2 in Europe. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)