Mahoba mess continues: NGT seeks report on stone mining

Case before green court alleges air, noise pollution    

Stone crushers

This Pune stone-crusher unit shows how to do it properly

Mangrul village unit runs on best practices despite being surrounded by polluting ones

Nepal

Development Deathtraps

Bonded labour, environmental devastation, abject working conditions... the stone crushing units of Haryana are a shame

Stones at stones' worth

Industrial diamonds can now be produced cheaply

High court closes four quarries in Thane

It's about silicosis

It's also about not compensating suffering mineworkers

Quarry trapped

Proposal to excavate stone near Kaziranga in abeyance

Driven to the extreme

Rampant pollution and state inaction forces farmers to attack and kill a miner in Goa

Stones of contention

Meteor shower sparks row in Orissa

CPCB’s new guidelines for India’s stone crusher sector a welcome step

CPCB guidelines in alignment with recommendations made by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment

Villagers protest relocation of stone-crushers

Ordered by the Supreme Court to shift stone-crushers from the Delhi-Faridabad border, officials have arbitrarily moved them to a nearby village, …

Last gasps

WAIT UNTIL DEATH Perspectives Audio Visuals Bengali S-VHS/Umatic 55 mins (English subtitles) Supriya Sen, Samit Basu-Mallik, Tathagatha Banerjee, …

Dust storm and mist

Why a pleasant autumn morning turned grimy for Savvy Soumya Misra

South Asia

Illegal stone quarrying causing kidney disease in Odisha's Jajpur district

Locals allege that illegal stone quarrying in Dharmshala block of Odisha is contaminating the nearby source of water, leading to kidney diseases

Bihar introduces green tax

Stone quarries banned to protect hills

Reviving traditions

On a glittering trail

Researchers unravel the origins of some of the most precious emeralds known to humankind

Diamonds are not forever

Scientists are busy looking for a compound which they say is going to replace diamond as the hardest substance

Sparkles galore

Shimmering diamonds are not just earthly in origin. They can also be interstellar and meteoritic. From the depths of the earth to the expanses of …

A swami and sand mafia

Uttarakhand banned mining along Ganga over and again. Will it obey court order this time?

Stones from above

Harder than diamonds