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A Fox Coal Company dump truck plants a load of dirt on the Graffiti Highway in April 2020. It took about 400 loads to cover the one-mile stretch of road.
disasters

The End of Centralia's Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic 'Graffiti Highway'

First the fractured stretch of road became a canvas, then a gathering place. Now it will become forest.
Julie Knutson September 14, 2020
Nochten Boulder Park, on the site of an old open-cast coal mine, is one of the newly created landscapes in the Lausitzer Seenland.
lakes

From Mining Hellscape to Holiday Paradise

How Germany's Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.
Megan Gannon July 23, 2020
Permanently Closed
A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
Within the museum.
Charleroi, Belgium

Bois du Cazier

This former coal mine, now a fascinating museum, was the site of Belgium's worst mining disaster.
restaurants

The Chef Restoring Appalachia's World-Class Food Culture

A coal fortune is fueling the revival of a cuisine it nearly destroyed.
Eric J. Wallace January 10, 2020
The wooden coal tipple
Drumheller, Alberta

Atlas Coal Mine

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.
View from observation point.
Elsdorf, Germany

Hambach Surface Mine

This mine is home to the largest man-made hole in Europe.
The view from suburbia.
Glasgow, Scotland

Temple Gasometers

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past
The company store that once supplied necessities to the workers of the Brooklyn Mine.
Fayetteville, West Virginia

Brooklyn Ruins

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.
Vulcan Mine coal tipple.
New Castle, Colorado

Vulcan Mine

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.
The museum.
Fakenham, England

Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History

The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.
A serval, captured by a camera trap, stalks Secunda.
animals

Why a South African Petrochemical Plant Is Like Catnip to Servals

The wildcats are an example of resilience and adaptation.
Sabrina Imbler August 2, 2019
Aladdin Coal Tipple.
Aladdin, Wyoming

Aladdin Coal Tipple

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.
The abandoned building.
Pittston, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Knox Coal Distribution Center

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.
At oven level. A narrow canal separates the banks.
Leetonia, Ohio

Leetonia Beehive Coke Ovens

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.
The Troy Gasholder Building.
Troy, New York

Troy Gasholder Building

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.
Coal depot in the Kemerovo Oblast.
coal

Why 3 Cities in Siberia Are Covered in Black Snow

The toxic flurries are a product of Russia's coal pits.
Jonathan Carey February 19, 2019
The two well-preserved ovens virtually intact.
County Durham, England

Inkerman Beehive Coke Ovens

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.