Environmental groups last week welcomed the US forest Service's move to halt mining for gold, sliver and other "hard rock" minerals for at least two years along Montana's spectacular Rocky Mountain

The news is nothing new, many people knew of it, they may just having been ignoring it. Now its official and people working in and around the Dankuni Coal Project. Air and water pollution in and

Signalling a breakthrough in the lifting of economic sanction, the International Financial Corporation, the affiliate of the World Bank that invests in the private sector, has cleared a $35-million

State Minorities Commission Chairman Qamarul Islam has urged the governemt to ban quarrying in the 2-km radius of the Gomateshwara statue in Karkala in the wake of reports of possible damage to the

Instead of the chirping birds, the only sound that is heard in the Asola Bhatti sanctuary is the loud whirring of machines digging into the land. While the Delhi Wildlife Department announced a Rs 2

Experts : Though coal continues to be a major raw material for Indian power sector, its mining has for long posed risk to environment due to loopholes in existing regulations and lack of initiative

Twenty villages in the interior of Chamba district have started sinking because of illegal slate mining. This fact has been brought to light by Mr Rattan Chand, a social worker who has set up a

With enviornment audit of industrial projects soon becoming a reality, the mining industry, known for its impact on the environment, is under pressure to produce clean. "Once enforced the environment

ECL's decision to close down 64 mines endangers thousands of workers at West

China, the world's largest coal producer, plans to shut 25,800 coal mines this year and reduce output by 250m tonnes as part of continued attempts to halt over production and decrease losses in one