The People of the Pit

ASBEST, Russia — On a chilly afternoon earlier this week, an SUV parked at the edge of an enormous hole in the ground in the town of Asbest, Russia. Over six miles long and one thousand feet deep, it is the world’s largest open-pit asbestos mine. Two young women...

A wind of change in India village of widows

It took a police officer to help miners and their families breathe easy in India’s Rajasthan state, which has been losing its young men to silicosis Eight-year-old Naresh Bai lives with her 80-year-old grandmother, Lado, who is a widow. Her father, Ganpati Jatav, died...

NGT asks DPCC to inspect marble cutting units in Delhi

The National Green Tribunal today directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to carry out inspection in a north-west Delhi area and file a report on establishments engaged in marble cutting in residential areas. It also asked the DPCC to report on the technology...