The data comes from a report by the Global Coal Mine Tracker, which tracks over 4,000 coal mines across the globe.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely ...

In 1924, coal mining in America was at its peak, employing over 860,000 miners. Today, employment numbers are slightly over 40,000. Want more proof that the industry is on the decline? Just take a ...

Former miners at the Coal Creek Miners Museum were excited and ... What we see here, the pictures and everything, they’re real. They have a life behind them,” said McCool.

Coal mines abandoned this decade could be used to house about 288 gigawatts of solar panels, more than all the power plants ...

Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines.

Craig, a Colorado city of about 10,000 people, braces for the loss of roughly 700 jobs as coal mining winds down and energy plants shut their doors. For communities like Craig, nuclear power ...

A report by global energy think tank Ember released on Thursday projects that by 2029, methane emissions from India’s coal mines could exceed 1.6 million tonnes annually, more than twice the ...