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 ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using ...

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West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story’s always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the wor ...

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden ...

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For just the second time in program history, the West Virginia Mountaineers will be wearing all black uniforms, paying homage to the state's coal mining industry and all of the hard-working folks who ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia football will be honoring the state’s coal mining heritage this week with the program’s second Coal Rush game against TCU. “I don’t know when it started, but it’s a ...