Meghalaya will hasten the process to draft the state mining policy.
Although commercial extraction of coal and limestone is more than 20 years old, there is no policy to check the unscientific rat hole coal mining that is prevalent in the coal belts spread around four districts of Meghalaya.
Just when irrigation seemed possible People of more than 10 villages in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat have launched an agitation against the state government
Many aspects of the carbon cycle can be assessed from temporal changes in the 13C/12C ratio of oceanic bicarbonate. 13C/12C can temporarily rise when large amounts of 13C-depleted photosynthetic organic matter are buried at enhanced rates, and can decrease if phytomass is rapidly oxidized2 or if low 13C is rapidly released from methane clathrates.
Studies carried out in sal forests of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh revealed that the artificially reclaimed sites develop much faster in terms of soil and vegetation as compared to abandoned mines.
Nearly a third of the world's cement industry has united on a strategy to cut global warming gases in a way that will not slow a construction boom in poor countries, backers of the initiative said on Wednesday.
About 55 villagers from Shella are fighting desperately to get back their ancestral land from cement giant Lafarge after these villagers claimed they were tricked by agents to sell their land.
DUANJIALING (China): Less than a year ago, officials were pressing mines and factories along this limestone belt of northern China to shut down or move away to clear the air of dust and smog for the Beijing Olympics. Now, amid the global economic downturn, priorities have shifted.
Allahabad: In a major breakthrough that could help in the fight against global warming, a team of five Indian scientists from four institutes of the country have discovered a naturally occurring bacteria which converts carbon dioxide (CO2 ) into a compound found in limestone and chalk.
