tunnels

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When mining operations shut down after roughly 80 years, they left behind more than empty tunnels.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

County’s population, are largely excluded from the region’s most consequential planning decisions regarding infrastructure projects like transit lines and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities might show off “Gopher Way,” its elaborate network of tunnels and skyways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

After 20 more hours in which the rescue teams used pumps to lower the water level in the flooded tunnels, Zapata could finally be taken to the surface.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

For months, special British units had been secretly digging tunnels under the German positions, leading to nineteen underground chambers packed with a million pounds of explosives.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman