Dead animals in river blamed on cyanide spill
Hungarian officials issued a water quality alert on Tuesday after recovering the remains of two horses, a bear, small mammals and more dead fish after a cyanide spill in Romania last month. If
Hungarian officials issued a water quality alert on Tuesday after recovering the remains of two horses, a bear, small mammals and more dead fish after a cyanide spill in Romania last month. If
The Serbian agriculture, forests and water ministry has banned all use of Danube River water dowstream of Belgrade after contamination by cyanide, the Tanjug news agency said Monday, says
A cyanide spill that spread from Romania to neighboring countries will poison "the whole food chain" in the Tisa river for years to come, the chairman of Hungary's parliamentary committee on the
Serbia said Sunday it would demand compensation in an international court from those responsible for a cyanide spill that has contaminated a major river, destroying most quatic life. Romania, where
Work crews pulled out tonnes of dead fish from the Tisza and Danube rivers even as Romania rebuffed compensation demands from Yugoslavia and Hungary for the gold mine spill that contaminated the
Klity still unsafe: Creek claimed to be lead-contaminated: Social activists say Klity Creek is still contaminated with lead, despite a mining company's clean-up operations. Sopon Tatichotiphan,
The Karnataka High Court today directed the Union and State Governments to take action against two individuals who have been conducting illegal quarrying with the 'safe zone' of Bannerghatta National
A cyanide spill that polluted a major European river will "poison the whole food chain" for years to come, a Hungarian environmental official said Monday.Zoltan Illes, head of Hungary's environmental
The Australian owners of a gold mine in Romania blamed for an environmental catastrophe in central Europe today again denied it had caused the widespread death of marine life. Tonnes of dead fish
A burst of cyanide-laced water, that has flown into the Danube, killing everything in its path, reached the Yugoslav capital Belgrade on Monday, and was heading eastwards to where the Danube slices a
Romania and Hungary began discussing compensation yesterday for a cyanide spill at a Romanian gold mine that has killed thousands of fish in a major river system. The spill has poisoned the
The death of two persons in the Khaniyara slate quarries has once again exposed the illegal mining being undertaken there in violation of the Supreme Court's orders. A complete ban had been imposed
It is virtually the problem of getting caught between the devil and the deep sea for the villagers of Elangamanipuram located close to the Kanyakumari - Thiruvananthapuram National Highway near
All the names that matter in the West Bengal government have repeatedly directed Burdwan police and the Central Industrial Security Force to take steps against illegal coal mining in the
The green hills in Himachal Pradesh have been indiscriminately stripped of its forest cover in the past 10 years, resulting in flash floods, devastating landslides and complete change in the pattern
The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr. Babu Lal Marandi, today declared the intention of the Government to put a stop to the environmental problems being caused by the use of
Despite the report of a miner death in a Ukranian coal mine, deaths are down significantly this year over last year's total of 360 fatalities.The death today of a Ukrainian miner who was electrocuted
The caving in of an illegal mine in which five tribals were buried alive at Junagarh on 21 December has exposed the rampant gem-smuggling that takes place in the district. Meanwhile the toll in the
More than 16 years after the Supreme Court set free bonded labourers of Surajkund stone quarries and directed the government to ensure minimum wages and housing for them as well, they are still
Around 50,000 Kol tribals of Shankargarh, engaged in quarrying of Silica sand and stones, have threatened to capture the land of the erstwhile Raja of Shankargarh and start working from January 1,