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 ...

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 US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) announced Monday nearly $120 million in fiscal year 2026 abandoned mine land reclamation fee-based grants for eligible states and ...

Abandoned mines and quarries are anthropogenically created subsurface and surface excavations that have ceased economic operation, forming a distinct focus of research in environmental geoscience, ...

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 ...

South Wales' abandoned coal mines could hold the key to greener heating across the U.K. Scientists from Aberystwyth University have mapped the microbes that thrive in the mines. These tiny organisms ...

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

An abandoned cinnabar ore mine for mercury in Texas. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued an order to unlock federal dollars to recover above-ground critical minerals from functioning and ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

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 ...