Dan Lopez is a modern-day explorer who has focused his attention on the hundreds of abandoned mines hidden well below New Jersey's ground.

He experienced black damp in a Pennsylvania coal mine, and came across unused dynamite. At one point he went a little too far, nearly falling to his death down a crevasse in New York. Lopez has ...

After burning below Olyphant for two decades, the Dolph mine fire is extinguished as borough officials wait for construction ...

The Alabama Port Authority announced in late December 2024 that a major contract to a U.S. company with significant work to ...

Victoria Michaels, executive director of the Independence Conservancy, remembers as a child that Raccoon Creek ran bright orange and stank from the mine pollution. “There’s not one person alive who ...

The countdown to 2025 is on—but not everyone can stay up until midnight! The Bloomsburg Children's Museum has an event ...

The Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) has selected longtime Luzerne County resident Mark ...

Specialty museums are particularly focused, diving deep into highly specific subject matters, from seashells to ventriloquism ...

As we approach the end of 2024, I asked our federal legislators to share what they were most proud of in their work in Washington, D.C. We have to begin with the departure of two members of Congress — ...

A new final rule was issued by the federal Department of Labor earlier this month that will require coal operators who ...

Brewing beer is a centuries-old tradition in many parts of the world, but where did the oldest brewery that's still operating ...