Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...

The story illustrates the contrast between their past in the mountains and their uncertain future in the city. Keywords Appalachia, coal mining, family, transition, urban life, Cincinnati ...

Famous for rugged landscapes and the Appalachian mountains, West Virginia is one of America’s most underrated states.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

Coal has played a central role in Appalachia’s history. It should play a starring role in Appalachia’s future, too. With ...

Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...

Home Funeral would become one of Shelby Lee Adams’ best-known portraits of Appalachian life ... or fall apart and green mountains crumble after years of coal mining. Coal dust feels omnipresent ...

The same sites are targeted by mountaintop removal mining, which uses explosives that blast apart mountains to access coal seams. More than 500 mountains and 1.4 million acres of forest in Appalachia ...