LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Appalachian communities can apply for grants to help fund economic and community goals. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2022. According to a press release from the Governor's ...

TOWNSEND (WATE) – Two baby bears are recovering in Townsend after being rescued in North Carolina. The 10-week-old cubs were found abandoned on the side of the Blue Ridge Parkway and were brought to ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. — In an effort to clean up abandoned coal mine lands and give them new life, a coalition of groups in the Appalachian region has formed. 20 former coal sites stretching across four ...

The Hobet coal mine in West Virginia, once of the state's largest surface mines but abandoned since 2015, has been a major source of selenium pollution; some cleanup and redevelopment efforts are ...

Green salamanders have always been a bit weird. The only eastern member of the genus Aneides, a group of arboreal salamanders found on the West Coast, they’re long and flat, with googly eyes and tree ...

Hundreds of abandoned coal mines across the Appalachian region continue to pose environmental and economic risks, prompting renewed efforts in Congress to hold mining companies financially responsible ...

In the rolling Appalachian foothills of Ohio, Sunday Creek runs bright with shades of red and orange. The 27-mile-long tributary flows through the ruins of abandoned coal mines, which sprawl beneath ...

Appalachian Bear Rescue posted on its Facebook page that South Carolina wildlife officials located a foster mother candidate for the orphaned cub. The 2-month-old cub was brought to ABR on March 14 ...

The environmental and fiscal cost of cleaning up abandoned mines and oil and gas wells are enormous — between $12 billion and $26 billion nationwide, according to an April estimate by the Ohio River ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Thousands of abandoned coal mines in the U.S. have been polluting rivers and streams for decades, in some cases harming fish and contaminating drinking water. Now efforts to finally ...