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 ...

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 ...

Artisanal coal miner Emmanuel Siyabonga hauls a sack of coal to a client's car at the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is grueling and hazardous but is one of the few ...

The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River Valley and Central Virginia. The investment, announced last week, builds on ...