For all the reminders of Bob Key's cold war effort, mining uranium for American nuclear weapons programs, none stands out more than the tank of oxygen tethered to his throat. Mr. Key, 61, has

The Bush administration this week proposed to scrap another environmental rule adopted in the waning days of the Clinton presidency, saying it wants to suspend tougher standards for hardrock miners

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today imposed a total prohibition on the mining of sand within one kilometre upstream and downstream of all the bridges across the Muvattupuzha, Pamba,

A Canadian mining company has been dumping cyanide, mercury and copper into Guyana's biggest river, the Essequibo, alleges the Guyana Shield Media Project (gsmp), a group that disseminates

environmentalists in Karnataka allege that there has been a large-scale violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (crz) notification in the state. Surveys conducted by the

Indiscriminate sand mining from the beds of several rivers in Kerala for the past several years has reached such a stage that if no remedial measures are taken, the very existence of a number of

Mr Justice Mr Guru Sharan Prasad of Jharkhand High Court will head a three-member court of inquiry to find the causes and circumstances that led to the Bagdighi mine disaster on 2 February, in which

Illegal mining of quartzite is going on in the ecologically fragile terrain around the historic Surajkund despite the Supreme Court ban on any mining or construction activity in the

A MEF proposal wants to do away with environmental clearance for small scale mining

US-based activists and representatives from the Indian Association of Occupational Health (IAOH) called for a ban on all activities relating to mining, manufacture, use and trade in asbestos at a