A Scripps News investigation found as many as 1,300 coal mining facilities across Appalachia have been sitting for more than ...

Today, tens of thousands of these abandoned hardrock mines continue to leak acidic, metal-laden water into pristine streams ...

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 ...