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Since 1962, a fire has burned beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling mining town that is now home to only a handful ...

Author explores how Columbia County town dealt with underground coal blaze. What is left of Centralia, Pa., is seen on May 2. Only a few buildings and empty streets remain in the once-thriving ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Centralia has been a popular destination for adventurers and was even the inspiration for the horror video game and movie franchise "Silent Hill." There's something about the abandoned town that ...

Over spring break, my friend Andrew Hale and I set out on an unusual road trip — not to relax but to film a documentary in a town that’s been burning for over 60 years. Centralia, Pennsylvania, once a ...

An American town has been burning underground for more than 60 years. Once a thriving coal community, Centralia, Pennsylvania was slowly erased from the map, its streets abandoned, homes demolished, ...

After years as an underground trash dump, a disused mine shaft in Centralia, Pennsylvania had become a foul-smelling haven ...

Marco Mechan-Llontop and Samuel Barnett work at a microbial sampling site near the Centralia mine fire in October 2021, when they were both postdoctoral scholars in the Shade lab at Michigan State ...