As cobalt demand booms, companies must do more to protect Congolese miners

Mining method adopted in Congo comes with major human rights risks such as child labour and dangerous working conditions. Fatal accidents in …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 29-July 3, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week

Will the mining stalemate affect Lok Sabha polls in Goa?

The mining industry’s poorest stakeholders, who comprise a sizeable population of Goa, have been rendered jobless by a state dragging its …

Mining in Jharkhand threatens locals in their own land

Residents of the state’s mining areas are unemployed and are threatened of being jailed when they ask for work

Strengthen district mineral foundations' administration, planning: suggests Mines Ministry

With around Rs 2.5 lakh crore accruals estimated in DMFs over next 25 years, it holds enormous potential for removing socio-economic deprivation …

Tasar rearing may bail out 600 mining-affected families in Keonjhar

The Rs 23.75-crore project in the state’s Keonjhar district will be implemented using DMF and MGNREGS funds

These are India's richest lands inhabited by some of the most deprived people

Thought to be a game changer for India's mining affected people, the District Mineral Foundation is yet to identify its beneficiaries

Coal India signs MoU for environmental audit of mines

The MoU with Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education will facilitate eco-restoration of 430 mines

Mining mayhem

Home sunk home

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

Confrontation mine

The Paroja-Kondha tribe of southwest Orissa are waging a battle to save their forests and rivers from mining companies and a profit-driven government

Hell in Europe's back yard

Cancer and air pollution go hand in hand in eastern Europe, where an ecological nightmare is still unfolding