Funding gaps, regulatory red tape and a shortage of skilled workers are stalling the UK’s mine-water heating projects.

Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

I stood on the main street of a coal town in West Virginia with the mayor. “That used to be a diner, that was a bakery, that ...

This week my wife and I head back to a local Coal Mining Ghost Town here in Alabama! Our plan of action is to mudlark the ...

The coal industry once provided more than half of U.S. electricity production. But it has been in steep decline for decades ...

Twelve of Eskom's 15 coal-fired power plants are in Mpumalanga, along with over 200 active coal mines and hundreds of abandoned ones ... We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg ...

The town council arranged for the cleaning up of illegal dump sites by gathering the rubbish in an abandoned coal strip mine. Unknown to the town council, a 15-foot-long opening connecting the ...

Ghost towns are becoming all the rage again ... cobalt, diamonds and coal. Stalin was keen to exploit the region's mineral riches to support the rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union.

The film was inspired by Centralia, a ghost town in Pennsylvania. Its current population is 5 due to a coal mine fire that is still burning. An homage to what it's like being a teenage girl ...