Goa's mining companies will have to pay an environment tax soon as the state government has decided to mobilise funds through such a levy for giving compensation to people who suffer damage on

The state government has taken its fight against the environmental degradation of coal mines to the High Court green bench. Taking cognisance of a public complaint against a mine in Burdwan, the

The Digvijay Singh Government has given a green signal to the 'B Vijay Kumar Consortium' for diamond exploration work in the

A "statement of concern" about Australia's famous Kakadu National Park will be presented to world heritage officials meeting in Paris from today.Kakadu is one of nine sites around the globe that the

Entrepreneurs interested in setting up alumina plants in Bihar turned back in utter disappointment for want of authoritative data on recoverable reserves of bauxite in

To preserve over-exploited mining areas, the Ministry of Environemnt and Forests (MEF) is formulating guidelines to regulate mining in ecologically fragile

The bane of Kerala rivers : If estimates are reliable, sand-mining is a Rs 20-crore annual business in Kerala, providing livelihood to nearly 25,000 people, financing development projects in at least

The liberation of the coal industry, which came in spurts over the last three years and was expected to culminate in the amendmane of the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, has come to a hurtling

Removing sand from river beds is good business. A lorry full of sand can bring in Rs 4,000 . But it is also bad ecology. In Karur district, Tamil Nadu, sand mining from the Cauvery bed has affected

Notwithstanding the Centre's decision to carve out Chhattisgarh state, the Madhya Pradesh government is going ahead with the follow up action on tenders invited for the exploration and mining of