South African rescuers were trying to reach more than 200 illegal miners reported trapped underground in an abandoned gold shaft in a suburb just east of Johannesburg on Sunday, an emergency servic

An estimated 100 elephants will be killed across Africa today. Poached, in all likelihood, in front of their families. Their tusks ripped off to meet the global greed for ivory.

Rescue workers in South Africa are trying to free 17 miners trapped underground after a fire at Doornkop mine west of Johannesburg.

South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed bid by Harmony to overturn ruling that it’s liable for dealing with acid mine drainage at mine it sold 5 yrs ago, the Johannesburg-based Times repor

With India taking a strident position on the issue of food security and not lending immediate support to an agreement on trade facilitation, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) round in Bali for a t

Bali : Ahead of the WTO ministerial conference, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma is trying to drum up support for India’s position on public stockholding and food security.

The Sri Lankan Hub of the Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform [CEIP] was launched recently in Colombo.

An international team of ornithologists has declared Nagaland as the “Falcon capital of the world” after estimating that about one million Amur Falcons roost in the State during the small aerial pr