In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, coal miners worked in dim light, fueled at first by candles affixed to their heads, and later by whale’s oil lamps. Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a ...

India, Dec. 15 -- A Parliamentary panel has suggested simplifying the policy and standardised protocols for allowing underground coal mining, saying that the complex clearance process, similar to ...

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The British government has refused to allow an open cast coal mine to be built in northeastern England, the minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert ...

Methane emissions from a large open-cast coal mine in Australia are three to eight times higher than reported. This has been revealed in a study based on aircraft-based measurements by the University ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room for ...