The price of Central Appalachia coal has dropped 70 percent from a record $143.25 a ton in July 2008 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ... similar to coal miners’ wages.

Competition from natural gas and high-producing western mines is too strong for Appalachia Federal regulations%2C increased production spur job cuts across the region Report indicates a 31%25 drop ...

Out-Of-Work Appalachian Coal Miners Train As Beekeepers To Earn Extra Cash : The Salt In West Virginia, mining jobs have been declining for years, and there have been few other options to make a ...

This was the life of a coal miner in Virginia's Appalachia, a story of grit, hardship and resilience between the weight of the mountains. ♪♪ -Black lung is actually a preventable occupational ...

The seams of coal in some of Eddie Asbury's mines in McDowell County are so thin workers can barely squeeze down them. They enter on carts nearly flat on their backs, the roof of the mine coursing ...

The coal belt of Appalachia isn't exactly fertile ground for environmentalism. Mountaintop mining is big business in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, where companies dig up more than 1 ...

Mining for new opportunities in Appalachia’s coal country. Over the last few decades, American energy companies have decreased their coal production, leaving thousands of miners without jobs.

NORA, Va. — A new generation of miners is in training in central Appalachia, where a onetime hub of the nation’s coal industry is recovering from prolonged slumps that shuttered mines ...

For as long as people have gone down into coal mines, severe lung disease from silica dust has destroyed lives. This week, in the heart of Appalachian coal country, miners pleaded with regulators ...

Douglas Blackburn has been crawling in and out of the coal mines of Central Appalachia since he was a boy accompanying his father and grandfather some 50 years ago.

In West Virginia, mining jobs have been declining for years, and there have been few other options to make a living. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective is hoping to help turn that around.

Members of the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective inspect one of their apiaries. The collective teaches displaced coal miners in West Virginia how to keep bees as a way to supplement their income.