The team behind a documentary film about a group of Cornish mine explorers is celebrating after winning a prestigious award ...

Venture into the haunting Treadwell Mine on a remote Alaskan island! Discover the remnants of this abandoned mining complex, its eerie history, and the stories left behind in this frozen ghost town. # ...

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 former coal-mining hub in Canada has been exploring an unexpected pathway to clean energy by using the labyrinth of ...

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 ...

A recent tragedy in Colorado wasn't an anomaly. From drowning in quarries to stumbling into open pits, hundreds have died in vacant mines across the United States since 2000.

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 ...

The N.W.T. government and federal government have been negotiating how to remediate the six abandoned mines around ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

OSDOL HAS OUR STORY FROM MONROEVILLE. THREE MONTHS BEFORE LIZ POLLARD’S DEATH, STATE DEP OFFICIALS LEARNED OF A SINKHOLE. AT THIS MONROEVILLE APARTMENT COMPLEX, LEADING TO ANOTHER ABANDONED MINE.

A version of this story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2025. Drivers on Interstate 80 long have grappled with gridlock, sun glare and other unavoidable headaches of traveling in a densely ...