Silent Hill's eerie atmosphere shares parallels with real-life ghost town Centralia, with a coal mine fire still burning underground since 1962. The town's decline led to an official evacuation ...

The place is called Centralia, in northeastern Pennsylvania, and in the mid-1800s, anthracite coal was discovered in the region, and mining began shortly afterwards. More than five mines opened in ...

The church is built on the steep hillside above Centralia The town of Centralia has been left to die - but its last remaining church is thriving. In Pennsylvania's coal-mining mountains, there's ...

In the 1800s, miners in Centralia blasted tunnels underground to harvest the coal, but by the mid-1900s, many of the mines where abandoned. No one knows exactly how the Centralia fire started ...

The Kemmerer, Wyoming, coal mining operation has been quietly sold to a Southern California real estate investment company.

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in more than 30 years was unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Friday, ...

China accounts for more than half of the world's pipeline of new coal mines, risking a significant increase in methane ...