Across parts of the U.S., highways and buildings are suddenly collapsing into the ground—sometimes decades after the mining ...

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

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 ...

A small band of explorers are cracking into the radioactive mines where the Kremlin once used slave labor to dig out its ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun the cleanup of uranium mine waste in the Lukachukai Mountains near Four Corners ...

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

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

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

The nonprofit Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) received a grant to help remove several illegal dumpsites from Columbia and Luzerne counties and discourage ...

That's the tricky challenge facing DOT officials as they try to repair three voids that appeared on Route 80 in February and March New Jersey DOT officials do not have accurate maps of where the ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, ...