A coal borehole is a drilled hole that can provide access to assess coal quality or mine for the material. An abandoned coal borehole in Queensland was found to be open and emitting pollution ...

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 ...

Researchers in Queensland found a single abandoned coal borehole emitting as much greenhouse gas as 10,000 cars. Methane, 80 times more potent than CO? over 20 years, is leaking from thousands of old ...

Step inside this abandoned mine and discover a hidden underground lake stretching for miles! Explore the eerie tunnels, fascinating history, and breathtaking subterranean scenery of this forgotten ...

A former coal mine in western Maryland is now home to a 160-megawatt solar farm, the largest ever built in the state.

Boulder, Colo., USA: For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, USA. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day.

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned mine land reconstruction projects ...

Researchers in China developed a new compressed air energy storage system that uses flooded roadways in abandoned coal mines to store compressed air and heat for nighttime power generation.

The Golfview Mine, where Siyabonga is working, is one of several abandoned mines dotted around the town of Ermelo in the heart of South Africa's coal belt. It was once operated by Golfview Mining Ltd, ...