The Australian government launched an investigation into the leak of manganese-tainted water at a uranium mine adjacent to the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. It is the third

More than 12 drinking water and irrigation projects of the Irrigation and Public Health Department on the Markanda river bed being implemented with the cost of crores of rupees are facing hard time

India has tested a crawler-mounted mobile seabed mining system that can go up to 400 metre deep as part of its ambitious programme to scour the depths of the oceans to extract strategically and

Three environmental disasters have raised questions about how diligently Australian mining houses are managing hazardous operations offshore. One Australian company has been accused of polluting the

A second Australian gold mining company has been involved in a cyanide spill accident in as many months, this time in Papua New Guinea. Dome Resources said yesterday it was close to completing a

Greenpeace activists yesterday demanded the closure of a gold plant in northern Romania that was the scene of a major cyanide spill this year. More than 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-tainted

Up to 150kg of deadly cyanide had dissolved into a local water system in Papua New Guinea after a crate of the chemical was accidentally dropped from a helicopter, an Australian mining company

Greenpeace today blockaded the entrance to Esmeralda Explorations' ill fated Aurul gold mine in Romania, demanding that it should not be reopened as long as it was still using cyanide. The gold

Mining in the world's deepest gold mine at the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) in Karnataka will come to an end affecting the lives 4,200 families. The Union Government has decided to stop mining in the

Hungary said on Thursday it would sue one Australian and two Romanian mining firms over cyanide and metal spills that have devastated the Tisza