Some of the best kept secret fishing spots are found in the wilds of reclaimed surface-mined lands. State and federal agencies, along with many conservation partners, have restored tens of thousands ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

TREMONT – More than 50 residents turned out Wednesday for a public meeting and hearing on three pending applications for mining and reclamation work in Frailey, Hegins and Porter townships. Among the ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since the ...

In Texas, surface mine reclamation is a decades-long process – one that requires scientific precision, environmental insight and strong collaboration. For nearly 50 years, Texas A&M AgriLife has ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

Land in the Pella Wildlife Area (above) is part of an abandoned coal mine that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is reclaiming. It is the largest reclamation area the department ...

Stripping coal from a mountain demands a wholesale rearrangement of its summit and the transformation of the surrounding forest into a moonscape. Enormous machines rip out the vegetation first, ...

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. When Jim Kuipers started accumulating information for his guide to Hardrock Reclamation Bonding Practices in the Western United States, ...

Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region still reeling from last summer’s deadly inundations — which social justice advocates say were exacerbated by the ...