Coal mining was often a family affair with ... The reliance on huge amounts of coal as a fuel during the Industrial Revolution has had a serious effect on the environment. During the early decades ...

The industrial revolution was underway and it depended on coal to keep its engines humming. Employers controlled almost every aspect of a Canadian coal miner's life in the early 1900s. The company ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and ...

The nationwide walk out between March 1984 and March 1985 was a defining moment in the history of British coal mining and was the biggest industrial ... they faced during the strike, she also ...

On Monday, the very last coal-powered electricity plant in Britain is closing. The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution ... dug by a million miners, used to ...

and logging and coal mining both remain important parts of the state’s economy today. West Virginia also played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution with the development of bituminous ...

China is leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to revolutionize its coal mining industry, achieving significant profitability and energy security despite global pressures to reduce fossil ...

In the Loess Plateau in China’s Shaanxi province, where coal mining has long been synonymous ... of an “all out” bet on an automation revolution so aggressive and technically challenging ...