KANPUR: Union environment and forest ministerJairam Ramesh on Sunday said the Centre would put a blanket ban on sand mining across the country. Coming down heavily on the Uttarakhand government, ...More

Due to the closure of mining in Haryana, Punjab has noticed a sudden increase of mining in the State which bid the Government to form the mining policy, which was announced a day before by State Indus ...More

Mumbai, April 16: A full list of violators and violations of the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) 1991 notifications will be put up on the Ministry of Environment and Forests Web site by December, sa ...More

Friday may turn out to be a make or break day for a slew of infrastructure projects in the city, including the state government's ambitious coastal road plan. The Union environment minister Jairam R ...More

FARIDABAD: No amount of court orders, it seems can save the Aravali from the marauding miners. A visit to the Dhauj crusher zone ? which was in the eye of the illegal mining controversy ? showed all ...More

FARIDABAD: No amount of court orders, it seems can save the Aravali from the marauding miners. A visit to the Dhauj crusher zone — which was in the eye of the illegal mining controversy — showed all ...More

Mohali, February 17 The Punjab Non-gazetted Forest Officers Association today demanded cancellation of FIR registered against three of officials of the Forest Department by Mohali police. The asso ...More

ERODE: The Tamil Nadu Farmers' Association has appealed to the district administration to cancel the licences given for sand quarrying in the hillocks, particularly in Thalavumalai hillock in Chennima ...More

MADURAI: A three-member commission appointed by the Madras High Court Bench here has concluded that excess sand quarrying on five sites along the stretch of Tamirabarani, the only perennial river of t ...More

Alipur Khalsa (Karnal), August 29 About 250 houses are facing an imminent threat of collapse as huge chunks of land in Alipur Khalsa village near here are sinking due to “excessive and illegal mining ...More

Still, the district is considered drought-prone. For, the rainwater does not reach the tanks and the groundwater table is alarmingly depleting, thanks to encroachment of main canals in many areas. As ...More

Dahr Jamail reports on the plans for an oil mining project in Canada that, if it goes through, could have devastating environmental consequences THE TAR sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is po ...More

With all measures to clean the river failing over the years, the Delhi Government is planning to excavate the bed of the Yamuna in order to increase the water retention capacity of the river. “We a ...More

Just 22km upstream from the Okhla barrage, the Yamuna is a different river. Upstream of Wazirabad in the north, it is a big, healthy river in which fish swim and to which birds come for water. Over th ...More

Endangered Olive Ridley turtles are not orphans at Kolavippalam beach in Kozhikode district, Kerala. A group of dedicated people make sure that the eggs laid by the visitors from the sea are not taken ...More

NEW DELHI, Oct 5 — The UPA Government has decided to formally give a neat burial to the ambitious river-linking project, with Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest, Jairam Ramesh declarin ...More

MANGALORE: A study by a teacher and a research scholar in the Department of Marine Geology of Mangalore University has attributed the phenomenon of sea erosion to human activities and decline in rainf ...More

NEW DELHI: The mining and geology department of Haryana has started preparing a master plan for sustainable mining of minor minerals (building material) for the next 30 years. The plan would include r ...More

KURNOOL: Collector Mukesh Kumar Meena and Superintendent of Police Ch. Srikanth inspected the sand extraction sites along the Tungabhadra river bank on Tuesday. They asked the officials to set up chec ...More

Chandigarh, July 29 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that a go-ahead from the state-level “Environment Impact Assessment Authority” is essential for carrying out sand mining activi ...More