Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

Scientists have developed a methodology to convert America's half a million abandoned coal mines into long-term pumped hydro ...

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 ...

The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining is using new materials to teach the public about the dangers of exploring abandoned ...

President Joe Biden recently signed a bipartisan bill aimed at cleaning up abandoned mines around the country, including those in Arizona. Senator Mark Kelly was among three senators who created the ...

With an estimated 10,000 hazardous abandoned mine openings, state officials have relaunched a program to warn the public ...

When an abandoned mineshaft beneath Interstate 80 in Morris County collapsed the morning after Christmas, closing the eastbound side of the highway for four days, everyone took notice. No vehicles ...

Mere feet from a prospect pit where miners dug for gold in the second half of the 19th century, bikers whizzed by on the Maryland Mountain trail system west of Denver. “This one is 15-to-16-feet deep ...

Instead of placing data centers on valuable farmland they could be located on reclaimed sites throughout the Appalachian coal fields.

Explore the abandoned mines of Yerranderie, Australia in this episode 388 adventure. Discover the history, hidden locations, ...

What if the remnants of America's coal boom could power the renewable future? Research suggests that abandoned mines may hide ...