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 ...

A New Mexico lawmaker wants the state to spend more money to help clean up sites that could contaminate land, water and air.

These weren’t safe or stable places to explore. Two abandoned mines, each with their own risks and unknowns. Loose rock, poor ...

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 ...

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

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

Today, most people visiting our public lands are aware of the principles of Leave No Trace. One easy way to remember the 7 ...

Dec. 10—New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the ...

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