Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind ...

A sweeping bill to jumpstart the cleanup of abandoned hardrock mines across the western U.S. passed the Senate this week with ...

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 ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

The U.S. EPA has started the long-awaited cleanup of Cold War-era uranium mine sites at a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation.

The deadly legacy of Cold War uranium mines looms over better regulated operations near Navajo Nation land in Arizona.

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Kolkata: Though late off the blocks, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) will also start in Bengal jails.In a Nov 14 order, ...