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 ...

Imagine hiking or biking through the desert or mountain area just to have the ground beneath your feet suddenly give way, ...

The state of Colorado is known as a fantastic hiking destination, but its trails through former Gold Rush towns and abandoned mines deserve more attention.

Hundreds of people have died or were injured at abandoned mine sites. States and tribes want Congress to fund cleanups. Cash-pinched states and tribes are struggling to protect the public from ...

Kentucky charged "unallowable costs" to federal grants for abandoned coal mine land reclamation, an audit found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 10—New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and ...

Nearly a decade after the state and federal government agreed to keep Nevada's largest abandoned mine off a federal list of ...

Geologist with a hard hat, headlight, and torch examining the walls of an abandoned mine shaft - Sava Senemty/Shutterstock Across the US, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines sit scattered across ...

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 ...

TOOELE COUNTY, Utah — With an estimated 10,000 hazardous abandoned mine openings scattered across Utah, state officials have relaunched a program to warn the public about the risks of going inside ...