Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with ...

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

A long-abandoned coal mine in Tablertown has polluted nearby waterways for decades. A recent land purchase and nearly $1 ...

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 ...

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

A coal borehole is a drilled hole that can provide access to assess coal quality or mine for the material. An abandoned coal borehole in Queensland was found to be open and emitting pollution ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A program to reclaim and restore land contaminated by abandoned mines in Iowa has halted work due to funding uncertainty from 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 ...

Artisanal miners at work inside the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is gruelling and hazardous, particularly in recent months after sections of the mine became filled ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned mine land reconstruction projects ...

NPR Photos: The perilous lives of men who salvage coal from abandoned mines It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who ...