The fourth National Consultation on Wildlife Conservation and People's livelihood Rights has unanimously called for total ban on mining in the Kudremukh National Park. The national park is from where

Mines and Geology Minsiter V Muniyappa today said quarrying had been banned in one-km outer radius of Bannerghatta National Park and action would be taken against the officials concerned if illegal

Mining laws are allegedly being flouted in Himachal Pradesh, apparently with the connivance of the authorities and without prior permission of the ofrest department.Widespread indiscriminate mining

It is bad enough, people around Farmersburg say, that their beloved Indiana countryside is being gouged by strip mines in a quest for coal. What is worse, they fear, is what the coal company wants

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said on Thursday that the mining and processing operations being carried out by the Uramium Corporation of India (UCI) at its miners in Jaduguda in Bihar

The residents of Sanso and Anlo villages near Ashanti Goldfields Co's giant Obuasi gold mine say they will no longer put up with the mine's pollution and want to be resettled, the Ghana News Agency

A coalition of 21 environmental groups complained to President Clinton today that the U.S. administration was about to side with the coal industry and undercut a federal court decision that would

Steps by Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Co. to extricate itself from its environmentally damaging Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea took a step backward with landowners

Southern African countries are preparing a joint position on the restriction of trade in so-called conflict diamonds, which finance many of Africa's long running civil wars, a regional official

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hiked ints bid for Australia's North Ltd on Thursday to A$4.75 ($2.*)) a share, raising the stakes in its battle with Anglo American Plc for North's iron