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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Burning coal has contributed to the over-heating of our planet. But can abandoned British coal mines help tackle the climate crisis? A new garden village in County Durham will soon be getting its ...

A recent report by British think tank Ember highlights the urgent need to stop using coal for power generation if we are to have any chance of meeting the targets set out in the Paris Agreement.