Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease ...

State and local official say a flood inside an underground West Virginia coal mine has trapped a miner inside, and rescue crews have been pumping water out to get to him.

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

The Canadian province of Alberta on Monday reversed a decision that expanded access to the eastern slopes of the Rocky ...

Four nights a week, Given Zuli packs some food, meets his colleagues at the entrance of an abandoned coal mine in South ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our plates.

China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific Ocean.

Hundreds of feet below the surface, a vast network of tunnels stretches for miles — carved entirely from shimmering white ...