President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia. But there's ...

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

The UK has a vast network of abandoned coal mines, especially in north-east England, which once produced 14% of the nation’s coal. However, around a quarter of the population in this region ...

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 UK has a vast network of abandoned coal mines, especially in north-east England, which once produced 14% of the nation’s coal. However, around a quarter of the population in this region lives ...

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

Coal production history v today's mining village. Jingyi Li, CC BY-NC-ND The UK has a vast network of abandoned coal mines, especially in north-east England, which once produced 14% of the nation's ...

Where I grew up in New York City an abandoned building would not look so good. Rural America is indeed different. That town and its residents ... dozens of coal mines in Athens County, Ohio ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs.

But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge ... explores the ruins of the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River ...

American Electric Power’s John Amos coal-fired plant in Winfield, W.Va, is seen from the town of Poca across ... land damaged by strip mining, and reclaim abandoned and damaged mine lands.