The Alabama Department of Workforce’s Abandoned Mine Land Program has received a federal $11 million AMLER grant to clean up ...

In 2018, researchers from Bat Conservation International, Cameroon’s University of Maroua and the American Museum of Natural ...

Michigan has no shortage of ghost towns, and many of them are hidden gems for travelers and history buffs. Here are five ...

Home Reimagined follows Vern Yip as he transforms churches, warehouses and historic buildings into livable homes while preserving their architectural history on Magnolia Network.

If you like quiet roads and places where history feels close, these abandoned towns offer cabins, mine ruins, and dune ...

Police in South Africa on Wednesday said they had arrested 11 people, including many suspected of being illegal miners, and ...

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

The country’s biggest lithium mine has residents of McDermitt skeptical. The town straddles the Nevada-Oregon border and has a history of pollution.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of years Odette Ramos has been a member of the Baltimore City Council. She has been a councilmember for five years.

The 2,000-acre, 265-megawatt solar array is to be constructed on abandoned strip mine land along Black Moshannon and Coaldale roads.