Colin Kinley, veteran explorer and chief operating officer of Eco Atlantic, has died suddenly. His passing was announced on ...

The U.S. EPA has started the long-awaited cleanup of Cold War-era uranium mine sites at a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation ...

A small band of explorers are cracking into the radioactive mines where the Kremlin once used slave labor to dig out its ...

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

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Many abandoned mines and ghost towns are situated in remote, inaccessible areas. You often drive far from major towns. Cell ...

From Rochester's forgotten subway to Bannerman's Castle, these decaying landmarks tell fascinating stories of New York's ...

The atmosphere inside Washington & Jefferson College’s Burnett Center was electric on Tuesday during the Pennsylvania Energy Ecosystem Conference. The ever-evolving energy industry was the focus of a ...

With the Halloween season upon us, pumpkin patches, haunted houses and corn mazes are popping up all over. This year, in addition to those more typical Halloween festivities, how about also exploring ...

Cleveland-Cliffs, the largest player in mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, is exploring whether the company should shift the focus of one of its mines in Minnesota from taconite to rare earth minerals.

Some places are just spooky. Salem, Massachusetts, leans into its history as the home of 17th century witch trials, highlighting its Puritan-era churches and graveyards. There are occult- and ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned mine land reclamation projects in southeast Iowa. Prior to federal ...