The 2,000-acre, 265-megawatt solar array is to be constructed on abandoned strip mine land along Black Moshannon and Coaldale ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

New findings shed light on the mechanisms behind a natural purification process and identify the key microbial "teammates" ...

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

State agencies, local governments and nonprofits currently can’t take on projects to clean up abandoned hardrock mines because of liability rules. New legislation in Congress co-sponsored by Sen. Mitt ...

The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department has identified 260 abandoned uranium mine sites throughout the state, according to NMED's 2023 Abandoned Uranium Mines Data Gap ...

"It's a great opportunity to truly dig in and solve what hasn't been solved for 100 years," said Jeff Graves, director of the program. Stuck between a rich past and uncertain future, Colorado’s ...

In the Colorado backcountry, the most dangerous hazards are the ones that don't look like hazards at all. The recent death of ...

Not all explorers are relegated to the pages of history books. One modern-day explorer is shedding light on some pretty dark places. Dan Lopez has spent the last 10 years exploring the dark abandoned ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind by Colorado’s rich mining history: more than 23,000 inactive mining ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day problem for ...

Mere feet from a prospect pit where miners dug for gold in the second half of the 19th century, bikers whizzed by on the Maryland Mountain trail system west of Denver. “This one is 15-to-16-feet deep ...