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 ...

Sparwood, British Columbia, is a town of roughly 4,000 people tucked into the Elk Valley, surrounded by the open pits and ...

The former coal-mining town of Cumberland is becoming a powerful example of how abandoned fossil-fuel infrastructure can be ...

Cumberland, B.C. is reimagining its coal mining past as a clean energy opportunity. Water trapped in abandoned mine tunnels ...

A coal borehole is a drilled hole that can provide access to assess coal quality or mine for the material. An abandoned coal borehole in Queensland was found to be open and emitting pollution ...

Hundreds of abandoned coal mines dot the Kentucky countryside, leaving scars on the land and the people who worked in them, ...

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 ...