The top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal during the week
Aravallis: How mining wreaked havoc on the mountain range
Court digest: Major environment hearings in January
Erasing the dots
Undermined
Ordinance to reform the mining sector will do more harm than good
Indigenous civil engineers
Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels ...
Revival plan for whom?
Karnataka's ambitious plan to restore the ecology of illegal mining-hit Ballari has no representation from affected communities and environmentalists
People's power
Farmers in Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Gare village have floated a company to assert their rights over natural resources and resist ...
Life after coalgate
As the apex court cancels 214 illegal coal blocks, people fighting against mining rejoice. But they are uncertain about ...
Coal quandary
In a sweeping pronouncement, the Supreme Court has termed all the 218 coal blocks allocated since 1993 illegal. This ...
Mining at deep sea
Countries are delving deeper into the ocean to explore its mineral wealth. The deposits on the ocean floor are ...
Cauvery gouged
Ten years after the Tamil Nadu government took over sand mining from private players, illegalities continue, harming agriculture and ...
Cost of marble
Mining in Rajasthan's Rishab Dev tehsil, the only place in the country that produces green marble, registered 6,681 times ...
Licence to mine
Supreme Court allows conditional resumption of iron ore mining in Goa
Solar threat to Sambhar
A mega solar power plant at Sambhar lake may spell doom for its fragile ecology and flamingoes
Carting away sand
Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat
Outsiders in their own land
Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights
Saranda for sale?
First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant ...
Hill of death
More than 200 people in 14 villages near Roro hill in Jharkhand are dying slowly because of an abandoned ...
Beachside troubles
Ministry of Mines and Atomic Minerals Directorate move to curb illegal mining and export of beach sand minerals
Call of the wild
Wild foods are a way of life for many tribal communities. Sadly, they are being muscled out by cereals ...
Freeing coal
As domestic coal production dips, plan panel proposes to allow captive coal power companies to trade coal
Plan that isn’t
NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries
Mercury treaty still sketchy
While experts welcome the Minamata Convention for phasing out mercury, they believe it might not be enough
Minor no more
Environment ministry regulates mining of minor minerals, finally