Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Noted Indian geoscientists will meet in Calcutta, to reassess the country's vast mineral resources and evolve strategies to locate economic and workable deposits. The scientists, will be meeting on the birth centenary of the first Indian director of the Geological Survey of India, M.S. Krishnan, deliberate on "Precambrian Geology" on …
The Assam State Government has decided to ban plying of 15-year-old buses in the city and these will be phased out in a systematic manner, said the Transport Minsiter, Sri Pradip Hazarika.
UK government plans to tighten planning controls on open cast coal extraction received a guarded welcome from environmentalists and the mining industry. Both parties said the outcome would depend upon how local authorities interpreted proposed guidelines stipulating planning permission should be granted only to developments that provided significant benefits to …
At Kantuta gold mine and of Bolivia's other 540 mining co-operatives emphasis is now being laid on environment and health. In late September, the Kantuta co-operative inaugurated several thousand dollars worth of machinery and equipment that will drastically cut the amount of mercury used in the recovery of gold. The …
The Gujarat state mines and minerals department wants two major and several minor projects to be cleared by the forest department with a view to digging scarce metals and earn revenue for Gujarat. Senior minister in charge of the department, Mr Narottam Patel, has said he would "ever go to …
Sunflowers and spinach could be used to clean up spillage of radioactivity from around nuclear plants if an experiment by the British nuclear industry proves successful. British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) is growing dwarf sunflowers, spinach, sugar beet and Indian mustard on an 80-metre-stretch of land contaminated by leaks from the …
Wooden carvings are hot selling products throughout the world. Unfortunately, the popularity of the product may also lead to its downfall. The Kenyan wooden carving industry is a good example of the above dilemma. A series of projects funded by the WWF, UNESCO and other agencies have revealed that trade …
The Delhi High Court recently upheld the government's decision to transfer some iron ore mines at Bailadila in Madhya Pradesh to Nippon Denro Ispat and dismissed a petition challenging the transfer. A division bench comprising Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice A K Srivastava in a detailed order said, "It …
is a bacterium that can supposedly carry a metal load that is equal to its own weight. Amazing, right? The bug, the common cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp which has been isolated from Wazirabad Yamuna water, can scavenge as much as one gram of copper per gram dry weight at 120 ppm …
Dented by the Congo rebellion, renewed fighting in Angola, failed privatisation plans in Zambia and slumping metal prices, mining investors are singing the blues. Long-term prospects are not so dim in these three mineralrich countries but the short-to-medium term outlook is bleak, say analysts. The central African belt is one …
GOA's forest department recently organised a workshop to discuss its research priorities, and debated in detail the location and preservation of natural reserves. "Problems of the ill-effects of mining, grazing, urbanisation and pollution required to be studied in detail," said a statement issued at the workshop. Till today, Goa does …
AT FIRST glance, nothing seems wrong or extraordinary about the toy car that zips around Jeff Bloomquist's lab at University of Washington, USA. But when you look closer, you find the oddity: tied to a small bloom that juts like a bowsprit from the front of the car is a …
Pernon Indians and environmentalists are battling against mining companies and government officials who want to exploit the gold-rich deposits in Venezuela's Imataca rain forest reserve. The latter wants to build towns and tourist hotels in the wilderness. However, the Indians feel that development could mean death of the jungles and …
Babies born in the Krugersdorp area could suffer severe lung damage or even die because of dust pollution from a nearby mine dump, says Vali Yousefi, spokesperson of National Department of Occupational Health (NDOH). According to Yousefi, the high quartz content in dust from a slimes dam in Kagiso Extension-8 …
The Supeme Court (SC) has expressed concern over the reports of considerable encroachments in forest area in Karnataka. It has directed the state government to give districtwise particulars in this regard and furnish the Steps taken by it for recovery of the encroached forest lands. The bench, comprising justice A …
"WE ARE waiting for doomsday," says 23-year-old Ramraj Tiwary, grandson of Pandit Bajrangbali Tiwary, the priest of the erstwhile Jharia estate. One more tremor and the country's coal capital, with a population of 4,00,000, will subside and disappear. "What is more tragic is that the public sector giant Bharat Coking …
The current attitude of BCCL, according to Jharia Bachao Abhiyan Samiti, is contrary to its declared Rs 10,000 crore rehabilitation plan which it had proudiy announced in 1984. Sources within the company say it had drawn up a plan to create seven satellite townships, away from the endangered area, for …
THE world's highest observatory will be set up at Hanle, Ladakh. It will be remote-controlled from Hoskote near Bangalore via satellite link. The prestigious project is being undertaken by the Bangalore-based Institute of Astro-physics (IIA). Located at an altitude of 4,517 metres above the sea level, compact in design and …
radio stations that sound almost as good as a compact disc could be with us soon. Broadcasters in Europe and Canada are already testing these high-quality digital broadcasts, but the special sets needed to receive them are so expensive that nobody is making them. Now, a British company has come …
The West Bengal government is fighting a case against the environmental degradation of coal mines in the High Court green bench. The Pollution Control Board (PCB) of the state has informed the bench that vast areas are being destroyed by land subsidence, underground fires and air and water pollution for …
