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

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 ...

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

The Nature's Wonderland ecotourism site on an abandoned mine land that is now home to Elk and has several trails throughout. (Photo by Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) Southwest Virginia has been ...

BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — Two people were found dead inside an abandoned coal mine in Buchanan County, according to authorities. The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office said the bodies of Jerry ...

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

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 ...

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...