Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nature's Wonderland ecotourism site on an abandoned mine land that is now home to Elk and has several trails throughout.

The vast expanse of the United States is dotted with fascinating mining towns that have been all but abandoned, leaving only ...

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 ...

Southern West Virginia used to run on coal. The mines shaped the economy, the towns, and the land itself. When the industry declined, it left behind something most regions would have written off as ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

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 ...