Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

Suleiman Khalil was harvesting olives in a Syrian orchard with two friends four months ago, unaware the soil beneath them ...

Malcolm Osborn, a senior at Vail Christian High School, can now add book author to his resume. What started out as an ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and ...

I stood on the main street of a coal town in West Virginia with the mayor. “That used to be a diner, that was a bakery, that ...

Hyderabad: To effectively utilise the abandoned open cast coal mines in Singareni, the coal company has decided to convert them into water ponds to enhance ground water in the area. The Singareni ...

"There is total lack of control over the number of potentially abandoned mines, the size of areas requiring restoration, and the severity of degradation and damage caused," stated the ANM document ...

“We’re hoping to reestablish native growth on what was abandoned mine land,” said Melissa Church, program manager at the Murrysville Area Watershed Association. It is the next step in an ...

BRASILIA, - Brazil has 3,943 mining sites showing signs of abandonment, or 11% of the country's authorized operations, according to a new study by think tank Instituto Escolhas, highlighting ...

Arizona is giving researchers more time to study the risks from thousands of old, abandoned mines across the state. The Arizona Board of Regents recently gave the green light for a team of ...

Peabody Energy is reconsidering its near-$6 billion purchase of Anglo American’s Queensland coal assets after the second fire at a major underground mine of the company in less than 12 months.