The recent sinkholes on I-80 were caused by long-abandoned mines. See the map showing hundreds of closed New Jersey mines.

The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

There's a really cool underground limestone mine in Kentucky that you can take a boat, kayak, or paddleboard tour in, and it ...

There are more than 400 abandoned mines across New Jersey. At one point, they were essential to the state economy.

Research on wildlife and abandoned mines has, until recently, focused mostly on those most famous cave dwellers: bats. But a recent study in the Journal of Wildlife Management by biologist Tim ...

New Jersey has a sinkhole problem. Here's everything we know about sinkholes and how they are crippling Routes 80 and 287 in ...

But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...