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

The Colorado mountain town is undergoing massive changes in a bid to compete with the likes of Aspen and Vail, although not ...

Russell Lee's 1946 photographs shows the squalor coal miners and their families lived in before mechanization.

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

Once a bustling copper town, this rural Arizona community near Tucson now draws attention for its low costs, desert scenery, ...

Explore Arizona’s forgotten ghost towns, where crumbling buildings, silent streets, and desert winds create hauntingly ...

Climate change is not just changing our atmosphere, it is changing the fabric of many rural towns nationwide. As the United States has moved to renewable sources of energy, it has strained the coal ...

The University of Arizona says it has received almost $15 million to help ease health threats posed by products from mining.

A Las Vegas man is working to restore Goodsprings, Nevada, loved for its recreation in a popular video game "Fallout: New Vegas." ...

Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town nestled in the Namib Desert, is now a ghost town visited only by tourists.

Iron, for example, is key for strategically important steel, used not only in cars and construction but in the military ...