The recent deadly blast has brought renewed scrutiny to the mining practice, exposing a nexus of weak enforcement, environmental destruction and exploitation of informal labour despite a decade-old ba ...

The removal of area limits risks further entrenching a model of extraction that prioritises profits over people and accelerated extraction over ecological sustainability

A proposal to mine coal along a corridor that links two tiger reserves in central India is a step away from getting final clearance. The move could affect movement and genetic diversity of tiger popul ...