Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines nationwide — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Rescue workers search through ...

Another sinkhole on I-80 has closed all eastbound lanes of the highway in Morris County this morning. State Department of Transportation officials closed the highway after a depression in the center ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

A version of this story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2025. Drivers on Interstate 80 long have grappled with gridlock, sun glare and other unavoidable headaches of traveling in a densely ...