There is a special kind of road trip that takes you far from bright lights and traffic lights. The sun hangs low across open land. The dirt kicks up behind your tires. You see old shacks or remnants ...

When you travel to an abandoned place, it’s important to remember that people left these towns for a reason. It could be due to dangerous human activities, especially mining, which has polluted towns ...

Across the United States, thousands of abandoned coal mines sit quietly beneath the ground. Old tunnels, empty shafts, and remnants of an industrial e.

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 ...

In 1950, a huge open-pit copper mine opened beside a small town in Arizona. As the mine expanded over the next two decades, ...

Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA (WJHL) — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Congressman Morgan Griffith announced Tuesday that two abandoned mine land sites in Southwest Virginia will be revitalized for job ...

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...