Time is running out for the Global Ocean Treaty, an agreement framed by the United Nations to protect at least 30 percent of the oceans by 2030 for a sustainable future, Greenpeace India and Mineral Inheritors Rights Association said, urging the…
Mahesh Beck (left) and Bimal Ashok Minj pose with a t-shirt for the 2023 men’s field hockey World Cup in Sumura village in eastern Odisha, India, December 10, 2022. Image Courtesy: Anuradha Nagaraj/Thomson Reuters Foundation What’s the context? Millions spent…
Image Courtesy: PWYP Human rights and the environment must be protected in the scramble to extract minerals used in clean energy technologies, more than 230 civil society organisations from 62 countries have told world leaders attending the United Nation’s COP…
छत्तीसगढ़ के कोरबा जिले में जिला खनिज न्यास (District Mineral Foundation) के सोशल ऑडिट (Social Audit) पर परिचर्चा का आयोजन हुआ। इसका आयोजन एनवायरनिक्स (Environics Trust), सार्थक (Sartha) और मीरा ग्रुप द्वारा संयुक्त रूप से किया गया। Read the complete…
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Image Courtesy: The Indian Express A proposed change in the definition of the average sale price of mineral ore will result in a significant discount on the price states receive for their mineral wealth. Read the complete article here
Extreme weather events, like India’s heatwave, pose new challenges to green solutions Read the complete article here
A recently concluded performance audit on the functioning of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Trusts in Jharkhand has indicted the state’s Mining and Geology Department for failing to furnish the actual figures of collections from mining leaseholders. Read the original article…
There was a flurry of newspaper reports on the coal shortage and the power crisis in the last few weeks. Is this for real or only meant to create an ecosystem to continue the use of this dirty fuel and…
The state government last week made a provision for mining companies to declare that they have not been blacklisted in any court for illegal mining operation. This will set a new benchmark that miners will not be able to participate…
The Bisra police on Monday, March 28, arrested 21 tribal activists in Odisha’s Rourkela for leading a protest of Adivasis displaced from in and around Bondamunda in the state’s Sundargarh district. Among those arrested is activist Deme Oram who, alongside…