Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the coal mine appeared to be “illegal” after a person was arrested in connection with the disaster. The government has ordered a judicial ...

Sky News has spoken with residents who live near some of Wales's most dangerous disused coal tips, who say lessons have not ...

A mining disaster in the South African town of Jagersfontein released a slurry of potentially toxic waste, known as tailings, into the surrounding countryside. (Image credit: NASA/Landsat/Lauren ...

Residents who live near disused coal tips in South Wales ... it to suddenly slide downhill as slurry. The tragedy is considered the worst mining-related disaster in British history and was more ...

The Assam Police has arrested Hanan Laskar, a manager linked to the rat-hole coal mine disaster in Umrangso, Dima Hasao district. The tragedy, which has drawn widespread attention, has raised ...

A memorial event for the 183 victims of the 1942 underwater coal mine disaster in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was held on Saturday ahead of the 83rd anniversary of the tragedy. Organized by a civic ...

GUWAHATI: Gauhati HC took suo moto notice of the rat-hole coal mine disaster at Umrangso in Assam's Dima Hasao district and gave the state govt until Feb 7 to file an action-taken report ...

He will be observed by hundreds of local residents and members of the Association to Engrave the Flooding Disaster of Chosei Coal Mine into History, an organisation dedicated to ensuring the ...

Torrential rain brought by Storm Bert led to a coal ... mining community over the weekend. Residents were forced to flee their homes in Cwmtillery, Blaenau Gwent, after a river of slurry and ...

BEIJING--At least five workers were killed in a roof collapse at a mine in southwestern China, as hope appeared to be fading for 47 miners trapped under tons of rubble after a mining disaster last ...