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 ...

The perceived governance gaps create a persistent risk premium. Projects must promise higher returns to attract funding.

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 ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...

Until the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, miners across the American West extracted gold, silver, and other valuable “hardrock” ...