Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
The sun rises over Lake Malawi. As fishermen bring their overnight catch to shore, the purring motors of their dugout canoes spread ripples across waters once dubbed the “lake of stars” by David Livingstone. On the beach, a group of young men mend fishing nets. Women smoke fish to sell, …
On 27 May 1937, after one week of sustained heavy rainfall, a voluminous flood caused the death of at least 300 people and the destruction of the historic El Carmen church and several neighborhoods in the mining region of Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, central Mexico. This destructive flood was triggered by the …
An order by Chile's SMA environmental regulator to shut a waste dump at Anglo American PLC's Los Bronces copper mine will not impact production or operations there, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. The Donoso waste dump, which is used to store waste rock and is the only waste dump …
Anglo American PLC's Los Bronces copper mine has been slapped with a 3.8 billion pesos ($6.24 million) fine and ordered to shut one of its waste dumps, Chile's environmental regulator said on Tuesday. The closure of the Donoso dump was until "a definitive solution that permits the adequate drainage of …
Khartoum — The Sudanese Ministry of Minerals announced a temporarily halt to issuing licenses to gold mining companies in the northern Sudanese Rive Nile state on Tuesday. A committee formed by the Minerals Ministry recommended a review of the environmental deterioration resulting from the toxic waste produced by traditional mining …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Satish Kamlakant Navelkar & Ors Vs State of Goa & Ors. dated 08/04/2015 regarding damage to the agricultural land and the surrounding environment due to dumping of mining rejection and discharge of untreated water generated in …
Gold miners in the country have expressed concern on the improper disposal of mercury within the industry. Mercury is used in all gold mines in the country to sieve or attract 'gold dusts' from soil. However, some miners have expressed concern that after its use, mercury is improperly disposed of, …
A controversial mine which caused one of Spain’s biggest ever environmental disasters is set to reopen, the government has announced. Los Frailes mine in Aznalcóllar, near Seville, will resume operations 17 years after a tailings dam burst, dumping five million cubic metres of toxic sludge into the Guadiamar river. The …
WELLINGTON - Two of the world's most toxic former mines are to be cleaned up after decades of leaching poisons into the ground in New Zealand's South Island, the government said on Wednesday. The two contaminated mines on one site near Reefton, in the West Coast region, would be cleaned …
Villagers around a gold mine in three provinces have asked the prime minister to set up a central body to systemically solve their problems, claiming they have been poisoned by toxic substances due to the mining operation Wanphen Promrangsan, representative of the villagers living near Akara Resources Plc's gold mine …
For decades, villagers in a rural area of Guangxi have seen their rice saplings wilt shortly after planting and found soft bones a common ailment. According to court records and interviews, local residents strongly suspect that the source of the malaise in Sanhe village is cadmium poisoning. Since the mid-1950s, …
After a group of Malawi civil society organisations accused Paladin, a uranium miner company in Karonga northern part of Malawi, of secretly discharging wastes into Lake Malawi, the company, has hit back through a statement released to the ASX. John Borshoff Paladin's Chief Executive Officer was quick to downplay reports …
The study investigated the association between community proximity to mine dumps, and current wheeze, rhinoconjunctivitis, and asthma among adolescents. This study was conducted during May–November 2012 around five mine dumps in South Africa. Communities in close proximity to mine dumps had an increased likelihood of current wheeze OR 1.38 (95 …
Norway’s green and unspoilt image is at risk if government agrees to Nordic Mining dumping hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste into a fjord, say campaigners Norway’s image as one of the world’s cleanest, greenest countries with some of the finest unspoilt scenery will be tarnished if the government …
PANJIM: The Supreme Court-appointed six members Expert Committee headed by Dr C R Babu arrived in Goa on Sunday to prepare a report on how the iron ore dumps should be dealt with. The committee has to submit its report on or before October 21. The Apex Court in its …
Marco Antonio Corrales has given up on the peanut and alfalfa crops he was growing this season along the banks of the Sonora River in northern Mexico. That’s because the waterway, polluted by a copper sulfate solution that spilled from Grupo Mexico SAB (GMEXICOB)’s Buenavista del Cobre mine last month, …
The Mexican authorities have issued a new alert about a toxic spill into a river from a copper mine run by the mining giant Grupo Mexico. Officials in the northern state of Sonora asked people not to use water from the Bacanuchi river after an orange stain appeared in it. …
Mexico is sending federal officials to Sonora state to oversee Grupo Mexico SAB (GMEXICOB)’s $150 million cleanup of a copper mine spill that the government says contaminated the water supplies of at least 24,000 people. The special commission of environmental and agriculture ministry officials will monitor the company’s pledge to …
GURGAON: Following an order from the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the MCG has asked the marble traders of Sikanderpur to clear the debris from the Aravali forest area in a week's time and warned them of strict action, including sealing of their shops, if they fail to comply. The MCG …
Mexico's environment secretary said on Tuesday that Grupo Mexico gave false information about a toxic spill at its Buenavista mine in northern Mexico, a day after the environmental authority said it would file a criminal complaint against the company. In a statement on Aug. 12, Grupo Mexico said that "unusual …
