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

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 ...

German environmental and human rights group Urgewald has exposed how major financial institutions continue to bankroll the ...

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