Holding local and district officials responsible for illegal sand quarrying in the Kortaliyar river bed in Tiruvallur taluk, the Madras High Court has directed the Government to take steps for

Ram Nath began working in a uranium mine in Jadugoda about 15 years ago. Today, most of his colleagues are dead. Only two are alive and they are suffering from tuberculosis. There are many tribals

The United Nations will send a fact-finding mission to a lagoon in Mexico where environmentalists fear plans to build the world's biggest saltworks may threaten endangered whales, turtles, antelopes

The borough scored a victory in its efforts to close a quarry this week when a West Paterson (U.S.) judge found the quarry guilty of violating several local ordinances. Judge Robert S. Damiano found

The 'restructuring-cum-revival plan' of Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (ECL), a Coal India Ltd. subsidiary, will hit over 71,000 coal miners with the company contemplating closure of 64 Group IV mines. The

HC: The Madras High Court has held that agricultural earth was a mineral as defined under Section 3 of the Mines and Minerals(Regulation and Development) Act, 1957. Hence, the Tamil Nadu Government

U.S. President Bill Clinton asked the Senate to ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention Number 176, the "Convention Concerning Safety and Health in Mines." He said his support of

Tata Iron and Steel Company (Tisco) has received this year's 'FIMI-Gem Granite Environment Award' given by the Federation of Indian Minerals Industries (FIMI), for eco-friendly initiatives at the

Goa's iron ore mining industry in the private sector is worried about the fate of ore deposits in the Western Ghats even as state government's decision to notify two wildlife sanctuaries in the

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Union government on a public interest petition to protect people from the hazards of uranium mining in Bihar. The workers at the uranium mines at