A new study found that to offset the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to cover an ...

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Researchers working to prevent those deaths have ...

Timothy Novotney was a teenager in Hazleton when his friend moved into a house with a steel door in the basement.

More than 20 people have died following a collapse Thursday at a coltan mine in Rubaya, eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

Our Blood Runs Black” is the culmination of an emotional three years of research, interviews and writing for two Southwest ...

An accident which may have resulted more seriously, occurred at the Taylor mine switch Monday afternoon when a B. & O.

On the morning of October 21, 1966, a coal waste tip collapsed and crushed Pantglas Junior School. 116 children and 28 adults were killed in minutes—buried where they sat.

Fairmont State University has partnered with Brazilian movie producer Andreza Araújo to host the U.S. premiere of “A Day to Remember,” a documentary about the Farmington No. 9 mining disaster that ...

Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines.

This somber footage documents the aftermath of the Dawson Mine Disaster in Dawson City, New Mexico, which claimed the lives of 263 miners on October 22, 1913, marking it as the second deadliest ...

This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos.

Coal mined in Emery County ... A memorial in Price, Utah, to miners who have died in Carbon County from mining disasters like explosions or cave-ins, or suffered slower deaths from black lung ...