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 ...

Artisanal coal miner Emmanuel Siyabonga hauls a sack of coal to a client's car at the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is grueling and hazardous but is one of the few ...

Elizabeth Pollard died in December after falling into a sinkhole at an abandoned mine in Unity Township, Westmoreland County. Action News Investigates has learned there are dozens of other abandoned ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOLDEN, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection said crews are close to finishing work on the abandoned mine that burst in the Holden area of Logan County. One blowout ...