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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

TREMONT, Pa. (WHTM) — Just over $15 Million has been awarded to restore abandoned mine land in Pennsylvania, and just over half of that is going to Schuylkill County. The Pennsylvania Department of ...

Deep beneath the surface, an abandoned salt mine in Romania was transformed into an unusual amusement park. This video explores what was built underground and why it was eventually left behind. The ...