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 ...

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

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

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

Strychnine, speaking in tongues and ramshackle rockabilly spits forth from West Virginia’s last remaining snake handling ...

West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

Authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales were investigating a blast at a metals mine in the outback that killed two workers and injured a third.

Explore Virginia’s forgotten ghost towns where echoes of history linger in ruins, trails, and silent riverbanks.

At a dialogue on labor and the environment in Appalachia, Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, lent his ...

Democratic Governor-Elects Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey champion energy policies that ...

For Veterans Day, a Jacksonville man remembers his cousin, an Army Ranger who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.