A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1754-1770 (17 pages) Land cover change often alters the chemical regime and reduces the diversity of sensitive taxa in downstream aquatic ...

all of which are represented in the lawsuit by Appalachian Mountain Advocates. The groups are asking the court to require new site-specific guidance to protect imperiled animals from coal mining ...

That means restoring the mountain’s natural ridgelines ... may be a win for the environment generally, for coal mining communities across Appalachia, it’s what’s behind these “zombie ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

The suit, brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and Appalachian Voices in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, slammed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, saying the agency ...

(AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Funded by a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant, a consortium of researchers will determine if critical minerals can be extracted from the waste byproducts of ...

The banjo plays a major role in the folk music tradition of Appalachia, and when coal mining arrived in the region in the late 1800s, it inspired many songs. A concert of American coal mining songs in ...

all of which are represented in the lawsuit by Appalachian Mountain Advocates. The groups are asking the court to require new site-specific guidance to protect imperiled animals from coal mining ...