The remnants of Hurricane Juan in 1985 collided with a frontal system to produce rain which sat over West Virginia and poured ...

With a long history of unpaid fines for wide-ranging environmental violations, one of the region’s most prominent coal ...

There’s something magical about the hunt for treasure among other people’s castoffs, and at Pence Springs Flea Market in Pence Springs, West Virginia, that magic comes alive every Sunday from spring ...

Long-abandoned coal mines may still be quietly releasing CO₂ into the atmosphere through their drainage waters.

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

Underground mining involves extracting minerals, coal, and other resources from deposits located deep beneath the earth’s ...

For the first time in three decades, there’s a new leader atop the United Mine Workers of America. Cecil Roberts officially ...

There’s a special kind of magic that happens when the sun sets behind the mountains of West Virginia and a massive white screen ... dotting the landscape during their golden age in the 1950s and 1960s ...