Mark Olalde is a reporter covering the environment in the Southwest. Before joining ProPublica, he wrote for The Desert Sun, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity. His ...

Hyderabad: To effectively utilise the abandoned open cast coal mines in Singareni, the coal company has decided to convert them into water ponds to enhance ground water in the area. The Singareni ...

"There is total lack of control over the number of potentially abandoned mines, the size of areas requiring restoration, and the severity of degradation and damage caused," stated the ANM document ...

“We’re hoping to reestablish native growth on what was abandoned mine land,” said Melissa Church, program manager at the Murrysville Area Watershed Association. It is the next step in an ...

BRASILIA, - Brazil has 3,943 mining sites showing signs of abandonment, or 11% of the country's authorized operations, according to a new study by think tank Instituto Escolhas, highlighting ...

The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an effort to revitalize coal communities. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ...

Arizona is giving researchers more time to study the risks from thousands of old, abandoned mines across the state. The Arizona Board of Regents recently gave the green light for a team of ...

April 9 (UPI) --The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an effort to revitalize coal communities. "Restoring these ...