After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new ...

Abandoned coal mines will soon serve a new purpose that will benefit the environment thanks to an initiative from the Biden administration. In May, it was announced that $450 million from the ...

By Anna Weekes Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

Deep beneath the English countryside, a group of miners began what should have been another routine shift. Within hours, an ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - English coal mining may be a fading way of life but Pitmatic, the local dialect of the mining communities in northeast England, has been preserved by the publication of its ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

A mountaintop near Cumberland, Kentucky, remains scarred after it was strip mined in search of coal. Many mining companies walked away without remediating the land after filing for bankruptcy. Now a ...

Switching off a large coal station may be satisfying. But it won’t be that easy for Queensland’s Gladstone power station.

An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village.

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

North Korea has launched a “100-day battle of loyalty” to boost coal production in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of ...