The latest leaders’ summit raised hopes for a recovery effort at Chosei Coal Mine. Now the death of a Taiwanese diver has put the project into question once again.

In the 1960s, major oil-producing nations formed a cartel to drive up the price of oil. It worked. For decades, nations in ...

In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high ...

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949.

The last operating coal mine on the right-of-way of the original Western Maryland Railway, a facility in the mountains of rural northeastern West Virginia, is slated for closure this spring. Mettiki ...

The U.K.’s push to meet climate goals turned a former coal plant into a giant woodstove -- powered by forests an ocean away.

Once synonymous with mining, this northern French town has become a model for how to sustainably transition away from fossil ...

The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...

Fine Arts Fiesta 70th anniversary gala, 70 Trips Around the Square, 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 9, at Westmoreland Club, 59 South Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, $170 per person, with entertainment by Eddie ...

Discover the haunting story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town consumed by an underground fire for over six decades. Explore the environmental disaster that forced its residents to flee, leaving ...

Last Czech hard coal mine shaft closes this month Ends 250 years of coal mining in Ostrava region High costs of deep mining make deep shafts uncompetitive Green transformation, shrinking steel ...

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people ...