End of an era nears for Berlin's coal stoves
Alban Nikolai Herbst's Berlin apartment is covered in dust, his precious record collection included, thanks to a coal-powered stove he still uses to heat his home like thousands across the city.
Germany's new government is set to extinguish the at-home heat source from a bygone era as part of its ambitious climate plans, as it looks to cut harmful emissions linked to climate change.
But Herbst says he remains attached to his coal-powered stove, which he clings to for "sentimental" reasons.
Arriving in Berlin in the mid-1990s, Herbst discovered an odour that had long disappeared from the streets of western cities, where -- unlike in the ex-communist east -- domestic coal burning had died out.
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