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SHANKSVILLE — Volunteers from 11 groups began planting trees and shrubs Friday at Flight 93 National Memorial for the annual Day of Caring.

Volunteers from 11 groups began planting trees and shrubs Friday at Flight 93 National Memorial for the annual Day of Caring.

Volunteers from 11 groups began planting trees and shrubs Friday at Flight 93 National Memorial for the annual Day of Caring. Teenagers from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps

Michael French of Green Forests Work speaks on restoring native, hardwood forests on old coal mines from Alabama to Pennsylvania.

LEXINGTON — Chris Barton, professor in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment department of forestry and natural resources, has been conducting research related to environmental

A Biden administration program called the American Climate Corps aims to hire and train 20,000 people in conservation, climate and clean energy jobs. Still in the early stages of development, groups in Appalachia say the program could potentially steer a significant number of young people in the region into well-paying jobs. Brendan Muckian-Bates, policy and advocacy associate for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center in Whitesburg, said Kentuckys Appalachian region has struggled with continuing...

For more than two decades, Chris Barton, Ph.D., professor of forest hydrology and watershed management in the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, has been conducting research related to environmental pollution and the restoration of degraded lands. Primarily focused on coal mines in Appalachia, Barton’s research recently expanded to a more global scale.

GLADY, W.Va. — For Charleston attorney Arden Cogar Jr., separating trees from their stumps is a family tradition.

GLADY — For Charleston attorney Arden Cogar Jr., separating trees from their stumps is a family tradition. So is cutting down West Virginia Christmas trees for display in places of

REPLACING NATIVE trees is vital to efforts to restore and reforest reclaimed mine sites, scientists said during recent discussion of efforts to improve abandone