Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates remain substantially higher, especially in certain areas of Central ...

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Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.

The prison has been controversial, with some supporting the prospect for jobs but others raising concerns including mass ...

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

Fighting desperately to cling on to coal mines that were once the lifeblood of its industrial east, Ukraine's soldiers ...

After a flood destroyed their town, Kentucky residents faced the agonizing choice of whether to stay or to relocate to new ...

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

Indigenous group seeking to restore and reclaim Appalachian land buys 63 acres within site of proposed federal prison with ...