Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

In mainland China – the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal – 90 former coal mines were operating as solar-power facilities, with a total generating capacity of 14 gigawatts (GW ...

The data comes from a report by the Global Coal Mine Tracker, which tracks over 4,000 coal mines across the globe.

Old coal mines on the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies are leaching chemicals that are poisoning the fish downstream.

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of ...

Steep paths zigzag through the pine and silver birch trees that smother the slopes of a vast slag heap looming over Murcki, a ...

Some of the reasons why the world has not been able to quit coal are obvious, and some are less so. Coal is cheap and ...

Lake testing indicates ‘any further coal mine development may well push the Crowsnest fishery beyond sustainability,’ researchers write. Photo via Wikimedia. Mountain top removal coal mines in ...

Flood water from a disused mine is being used as a renewable source of heating for the first time in Wales. The business near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, has started pumping water from a nearby mine ...

More than 100 people gathered in Forest Lake to talk about the prospect of more coal mining and almost all opposed the idea.