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A stone quarry in Mangaluru, Karnataka. Representative image by Ravimum via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Quarries devour buffer forests of Western Ghats after sand mining ban

Max Martin 11 Nov 2025
Dredging activity on the Beas River near Aaloo Ground, Kalath, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. Image by Sumit Mahar, Himdhara Collective.

Flood control plans could open doors to unregulated mining

Meenakshi Kapoor 5 Sep 2025
An aerial view of the coast of Kollam, Kerala, whose three mineral blocks are estimated to hold 302 million tonnes of construction sand in reserves, according to tender documents. Image by Arunvrparavur via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Auction for offshore mineral blocks met with resistance and delays

Simrin Sirur 20 Mar 2025
A dolphin in Kulsi river. Photo from Prasanna Kalita.

Gangetic river dolphins in Assam decline in the wake of anthropogenic pressures

Nabarun Guha 24 Aug 2022

Unaccounted deaths lay bare the dark side of sand mining

Varsha Singh 7 Jun 2022

[Video] When sand mining alters a river, flooding farmlands in Spiti

Munmun Dhalaria 12 May 2022

Sand mining a threat to the mahseer and other aquatic species in the Narmada

Rohit Shivhare 28 Apr 2022
Mining machinery at a Goa mine brought to a halt by Supreme Court of India’s February 2018 judgment. Photo by Meera Mohanty/Mongabay.

Mining on the shifty sands of Goan politics

Meera Mohanty 20 Jan 2022

Illegal sand mining a threat to the shrinking Chandubi lake

Anuraag Baruah 24 Aug 2021