For years, Daulat Ram has toiled on rusty bargers in Goa, loading iron ore for export to countries he had never seen or heard of. Five years after fleeing his poverty-strucken village in India's

Trams and traffic were disrupted in the city yesterday as 300 protesters marched through the streets in a noisy demonstration against the Jabiluka uranium mine. Speakers told the rally outside the

The Uttar Pradesh Government is losing about Rs 20 crore annually as per conservative estimates, due to the powerful sand mining mafia operating with impunity in over 386 acres of land. The sand

A haze of pollutants, the size of the US, covers a part of the Indian Ocean sky creating fears of acid rain, low rainfall and a change in environmental politics

A group of more than 30 international scientists launched a campaign to press Mexican authorities and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp, to ditch plans to build a salt mine on the edge of a whale breeding

Anti-nuclear demonstrators attempting to set up a tent embassy outside the Melbourne offices of uranium mining company North Ltd scuffled with more than 60 police officers yesterday.

The battle over plans to put Kakadu National Park on an international list of endangered heritage sites hangs in the balance, with preliminary talks failing to give a clear direction for

The people in Jharia townshiop face a threat from the Bharat Cking Coal Limited's overenthusiastic efforts to mine for the superior-quality coal in the area, an eminent scientist has

With one more worker succumbing to injury on Wednesday at the Dhanbad Central Hospital, the number of workers dead in the accident at Parascole West colliery of Eastern Coalfields Ltd(ECL) has risen

More than 200 mining experts from India and abroad will meet in Calcutta on Thursday to evolve effective maintenance management systems for underground and opencast mining in the country.Mine