The apex court recently rapped state governments for their inability to prevent sand mining in the Chambal river, the fish-eating crocodilian’s last stronghold
Once reduced to quarry pits, the example of Shankargarh, a sandstone ridge in Madhya Pradesh, demonstrates that local restoration, if driven by collective action, can serve as a replicable model for I ...
As Kinshasa deploys 20,000 ‘mining guards’, experts warn security alone cannot fix deep-rooted corruption, weak enforcement and community rights abuses in the cobalt-rich nation
