For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using ...

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

Eckley Miners’ Village in Pennsylvania feels like stepping into a piece of living history. It’s a small place tucked deep in ...

Long-abandoned coal mines may still be quietly releasing CO₂ into the atmosphere through their drainage waters.

Since 1962, a fire has burned beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling mining town that is now home to only a handful ...

India has over 500 officially identified abandoned coal mines. Many of these old pits, especially in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, ...

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving forward thanks to a $550,000 federal grant. The money is to be used to ...

State Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale.

Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project ...

Pennsylvania’s abandoned coal mines cause acidic, metal-contaminated water harming streams and aquatic life. Dr. Bill Burgos ...

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 ...

Contributed by Rudy Molinek, GSA Science Communication FellowBoulder, Colo., USA: For the past 250 years , people have mined coal industrially in ...