It was during Covid that Levi Kessler first started exploring historic underground mines in the Black Hills. Kessler only ...

There is a special kind of road trip that takes you far from bright lights and traffic lights. The sun hangs low across open land. The dirt kicks up behind your tires. You see old shacks or remnants ...

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 ...

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Coal mining is synonymous with Pennsylvania's history. While it's not as big as it once was, abandoned sites still linger across the region. Inviting explorers and thrill seekers into ...

Nestled up against the Canadian border, this county in Washington is home to a bunch of abandoned mining towns that are equal parts historic and haunting.

Boulder, Colo., USA: For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, USA. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day.

NPR Photos: The perilous lives of men who salvage coal from abandoned mines It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...