Labour is considering handing retired miners another £2.3bn, the Prime Minister has confirmed.

Attempts to tap into these deposits once again have threatened to dig up ghosts of a painful struggle over the future of British coal. It is a battle that many thought had been settled decisively ...

B.C.'s Environmental Appeal Board has upheld a $140,000 fine handed to a coal mining company after a contracted mechanic ...

Coal power was a critical factor in the British-born Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, but it wasn’t until 1882 that the British opened the first public coal power plant. The closure is ...

Mr Devine started as a miner at Brodsworth Colliery near Doncaster in the late 1970s when he was 16 years old. He worked ...

A team of engineers at the University of Kentucky, in collaboration with researchers at other universities, will work on a system to transform coal into high-value materials, according to a ...

Coal mining has been an essential part of British industry since Roman times. This collection looks at the hardship of the day-to-day toil beneath the earth as well as the effects of industrial ...

No jobs and poor homes: 40 years after the pits closed, Britain's mining towns still suffer ...

British Columbia’s Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) upheld last week a C$140,000 ($97,500) fine against Teck Coal for “severe ...

The mine's supporters say using British coal would save the carbon emitted by shipping it from abroad. But Labour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has argued that 85% of coal due to be ...