CHHATTISGARH/NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - On a moonless night in central India, Pannelal Rajak braces an axe on his shoulder and sweeps a high beam torch across the still, inky water of a lake.

Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere more than previously thought, according to new research by scientists in ...

Mining firms undertaking opencast operations are taking the biggest knocks during the current wave of fuel price hikes, the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe (CoMZ) said this week. The surge, which has ...