Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.

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

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

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

While many mining towns have been abandoned, this one in Utah, by Bingham Canyon, is still thriving and is bursting with ...

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

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

At a dialogue on labor and the environment in Appalachia, Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, lent his ...