Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

It was during Covid that Levi Kessler first started exploring historic underground mines in the Black Hills. Kessler only ...

Residents are living with the consequences. US lawmakers face backlash over decision impacting communities 'suffering for a ...

A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments ...

A long-abandoned coal mine in Tablertown has polluted nearby waterways for decades. A recent land purchase and nearly $1 million in state and federal funding will allow cleanup efforts and the ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

Abandoned coal mines could be significant sources of greenhouse gases, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Recent research reveals that these forgotten sites continue to influence our ...

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

Nestled up against the Canadian border, this county in Washington is home to a bunch of abandoned mining towns that are equal parts historic and haunting.

GLOBE - "Fire in the hole." As Manuel Cruz uttered those words into his cellphone, explosives experts on the other end of the line set off dynamite in two abandoned mine shafts on park land just ...