SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

Coal prices set to change

New grading system will be a setback for the power sector  

Now, fishing communities join forest dwellers to demand forest rights in Sundarbans

At least one million fishers depend on the fish catch from the estuarine habitat

Nirma's cement plant hits hurdle

Supreme Court asks the industrial house to prove that the plant site is a wasteland

Coal mine expansion made easy

One-time capacity expansion does not require public hearing, says environment ministry

MoEF to do away with environmental clearance for mining minor minerals in areas less than 5 ha

Jayanthi Natarajan asks officials to take stock in various states

Irongate opened

Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron

Himachal villages claim community forest rights for the first time

Threatened by an eviction notice, villages come forward to claim their community rights

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Navi Mumbai airport: Farmers divided over compensation package

Residents of six villages say their leaders betrayed them

Mahan coal block gets clearance

Forest rights of Baigas scuttled to clear way to mine dense forest

Gods must be dazed

Environment ministry recognises religious rights, pushes ecological concerns behind

Minamata Convention: India skips historic meet

Officials mum on why no official representative went from India

SC raps Centre, states for worsening critically polluted industrial clusters

Issues notice demanding reply within six weeks

Centre suspends green clearances to Goa mines

Conditions for restoring clearances not spelt out

Green tribunal dismisses Madhya Pradesh’s plea on sand mining

The state had sought exemption from seeking environment clearance from MoEF

OPG flouts environmental laws again

Begins construction without taking forest and CRZ clearance

Traditional communities can mine sand in coastal areas: MoEF

Ministry order has no provision to curb illegal sand mining in river beds

Green tribunal suspends environmental clearance to Gogte Minerals

Chairperson of expert committee that granted clearance had conflict of interest

Bichitrapur and Kirtania ports will endanger Olive Ridleys

Odisha forest department says ship movement will disturb turtle habitat

Aravallis razed

Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining

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Parliamentary panel gives more teeth to Compensatory Afforestation Fund

However the panel’s report tabled in this budget session misses the forests for the trees