PTOLEMAIDA, Greece — If earthquakes struck in slow motion, the results might be visible in a place like the Greek village of Anargyri, a hardscrabble enclave in a black landscape gutted by coal mining ...

Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to guard a barricade stopping trucks entering an open-pit copper mine ...

One afternoon in 2010, in a hilltop village called Kete in the forests of central India, a man arrived at the doorstep of Shri Prasad Khusro. Khusro shared a mud hut with his wife, children, elderly ...

BESTOBE, Kazakhstan -- Nikolai Katchiev, a taxi-driving activist in the Kazakh mining village of Bestobe, has a theory as to why a settlement of some 6,000 people that has produced gold for decades is ...

Philippines landslide: The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing, authorities said today (February ...

The stunning mural was unveiled last week near the "last pit of the Rhondda" A mural commemorating "the last pit of the Rhondda" has appeared in a historic mining village. The striking image has been ...

The death count from a landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines rose to 68 on Monday, officials said, as searchers abandoned hope of finding any more survivors. Hundreds of ...