It was during Covid that Levi Kessler first started exploring historic underground mines in the Black Hills. Kessler only ...

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 ...

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

South Wales' abandoned coal mines could hold the key to greener heating across the U.K. Scientists from Aberystwyth University have mapped the microbes that thrive in the mines. These tiny organisms ...

Nestled up against the Canadian border, this county in Washington is home to a bunch of abandoned mining towns that are equal parts historic and haunting.

The Golfview Mine, where Siyabonga is working, is one of several abandoned mines dotted around the town of Ermelo in the heart of South Africa's coal belt. It was once operated by Golfview Mining Ltd, ...

New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the northwest ...

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 ...