Next month will mark four decades since the year-long 1984-5 miners’ dispute came to its dismal end, with defeated strikers returning to work ...

A mine shaft collapse has created a 50ft wide crater on farmland near Bishop Auckland, the The Mining Remediation Authority has said.

Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the site of a former opencast coal mine ... that it was ending mining there along with five other sites in Scotland.

Mining companies who want to drill Scotland for rare earth minerals are “keeping locals in the dark” about their plans, a new report has found Friends of the Earth Scotland said firms were ...

Former Scottish coal mining communities are to share in an £11 million windfall from a new wind farm development. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between REG Greenburn Limited ...

An artist's depiction of the flood at the Mosside Mine in Airdrie, Scotland, that was responsible for the deaths of three miners in 1939. Coal was dug out from underground layers called seams by ...

Is it responsible or ethical to back energy policies that exclude coal and leave countries poorer and more vulnerable? Exclusive interview.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners condemned underground coal gasification (UCG) as a “reckless experiment” yesterday. Scientists are due to submit a review on UCG, which is under a moratorium, to the Scottish ...