Since 1962, a fire has burned beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling mining town that is now home to only a handful ...

Explore Virginia’s forgotten ghost towns where echoes of history linger in ruins, trails, and silent riverbanks.

Picture a dusty town frozen in time, where wooden buildings creak in the desert wind and stories of silver miners echo ...

Across Illinois, once-bustling river ports and mining towns now sit silent, their fading buildings quietly preserving the stories of a forgotten past.

Today, however, fortunes have changed for Garnet. Because the remaining buildings were abandoned rather than disassembled ...

Swap the close-up of the roulette wheel for the endless horizons of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Whether you ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially ...

Lawmakers have called for urgent action to reopen abandoned mining sites across the country, warning that delays in reallocating suspended licenses are fueling illegal mining, job losses, and ...

For decades, families worked the four surrounding local coal pits, but by 1994, they had all closed, and the area 'lost its ...

It is by no means a ghost town like Eureka, where you'll find a legendary hike ... The first houses in town were built in ...

A drug cartel took over a gold mine. Here's how an American businessman and his trusted fixer persuaded the Mexican ...

Quiet for more than 40 years now, silver mines around the northern Ontario town of Cobalt could soon be starting up again. That's thanks to record prices for silver, which has been hitting $50 U.S.