Clockwise from top left: An excavator at the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine; a demonstration in Keyenberg; a camp for activists in Lutzerath; and farmer Eckardt Heukamp.Credit...Ingmar Nolting for The New York Times For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.
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