But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

A Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales Island earlier this month, leading to an extended recovery effort. Fifty-year-old Devin Albert was visiting his ...

Advocates from coal-mining communities are proposing a roadmap to help address and prevent so-called "zombie mines" - abandoned mine lands on hold indefinitely. According to the Center for Public ...

There are four ski resorts in the Wujin Mountain area, which was once a coal-rich mining region ... and many areas turned into abandoned mines," said Wang. With remnants of the abandoned mine ...

Lopez spent about four years exploring abandoned mines in New Jersey before moving on to cement mines in New York and coal mines in Pennsylvania. He said copper mines at the Delaware Water Gap ...

The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River Valley and Central Virginia. The investment, announced last week ...

Mines are keeping 350 homes in Gateshead warm once again but now without burning a single lump of coal. Councillor John McElroy is the local council's environment and transport leader. He said ...

There are four ski resorts in the Wujin Mountain area, which was once a coal-rich mining region ... and many areas turned into abandoned mines," said Wang. With remnants of the abandoned mine ...

Police in Germany have clashed with protesters in the abandoned village of Lützerath, while trying to remove them from obstructing the expansion of a coal mine. Climate activists barricaded ...

The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a tourist destination. On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on ...