Now a new and perhaps even more vexing concern has emerged: Highway sinkholes stemming from long-abandoned mines. Three sinkholes have opened up along I-80 in Wharton since late December.

A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing gravity batteries. Editor's note: Readers often ask us for follow-ups on memorable stories. What has ...

In reality, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of abandoned mines in the Okanagan. It’s just that most, but not all, didn’t amount to much. “The Dankoe Mine between Keremeos and Osoyoos ran ...

Stronghold Digital Mining will clean up its unpermitted coal ash dump at its waste coal power plant in Venango County, which fuels its crypto mining operations. Pennsylvania has the most abandoned ...

The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh countryside. The Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Carmarthenshire date back over ...

The soil instability near the interchange with Route 15 is blamed on abandoned mines beneath the highway that are slowly collapsing. The New Jersey Department of Transportation has been shoring up ...

New Mexico could soon be cleaning up some of the hundreds of abandoned uranium mines and other contaminated sites around the state and paving the way for continued efforts — if $50 million for that ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

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Julie Bourdin is a freelance journalist based in South Africa. She covers human rights and climate-related stories across ...