The Supreme Court has directed that the Karnataka Government should "consider afresh" the final notification which excluded 3,703 hectares of forest land from the Kudremukh National Park.

The cancer-causing qualities of asbestos have led many countries to ban its use; others mine it under strictly-monitored conditions. But in Pakistan mining and use carry on unchecked in villages - so

On Saturday, the wall of silence and obfuscation surrounding the flooding of a south China tim mine began to crumble, with the Communist Party's main newspaper confirming - nearly three weeks after

Large scale illegal sand quarrying, beyond permitted depth in a lake in Madambakkam, near Tambaram, has affected four villages in the area, resulting in many people migrating to other parts in search

The Madhya Pradesh government has informed the Centre that no illegal sand-stone mining activities were going on in the forest areas of Shivpuri and other districts of the state.It was stated in the

Officials were investigating the accidental flooding of the tine mine in southern China that killed at least 76 miners, after state media accused the operation's owners of a attempting to cover up

The former Chairman of Coal India Ltd and Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, Mr G.L. Tandon, has supported the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company's claim to long-term lease for the already broken area where it

The Environmental Support Group (ESG) is at present campaigning for a ban on mining operations of the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) in the Kudremukh National Park. It has the support of

It is now the turn of the Officers' Association of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) to give their company a 'clean chit'. The association has claimed that the "facts and figures of mining

A gas explosion killed 10 coal miners in China's northwest, a local official said on Tuesday, adding to a mounting death toll in China's mining