This has enormous potential as a sustainable energy source. Schemes such as the mine water district heat network in Gateshead ...

Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of ...

As the Hunter region of New South Wales inches toward the closure of the state's largest coal mine, Muswellbrook community ...

Long before skyscrapers dominated America's skyline, the country was rife with rough and remote mining towns that were built ...

Canada's village of Cumberland has began using abandoned coal mines to supply clean geothermal heating and cooling for homes ...

Gagnon was once a thriving northern mining town with 4,000 residents, a hospital, schools, churches, an airport, and a ...

West Virginia's governor says the search for a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine remains a rescue operation Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

The best antidote for politicized nostalgia that hails an imagined idyllic yesteryear full of abundant blue-collar jobs? Taking a good, hard look at how those workers actually lived. "Power & Light," ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

A West Virginia coal miner was found dead inside a flooded mine on Thursday morning after a desperate five-day search, officials said. Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old Elkview native, died in Rolling ...

DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an ...