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.

Advanced Navigation has successfully demonstrated a breakthrough in underground navigation, delivering high-precision positioning without reliance on fixed infrastructure or GNSS. The demonstration of ...

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 ...

The Jake and Spike Show, weekdays from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. A Seattle local is participating in a Guinness World Record today for the world’s deepest marathon. Chris-King Sidney will be part of a group of ...

Planet China: Ninth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. BANTEN PROVINCE, Indonesia—The city of Cilegon is surrounded by ...

Russia's coal industry has become one of the main economic casualties of the Kremlin's full-scale war against Ukraine, as sanctions, rising costs and low prices have plunged miners into their deepest ...

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.