Thousands of people face evacuation from greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province – the economic heartland of South Africa – due to toxic sludge from abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a method to recover phosphorus from sewage sludge ash, which remains after the sludge has been burned for electric power generation. In a paper ...

There is no sign of any decrease in the unlawful extraction of sand and boulders in the Trishuli River in Dhading. Slush drained by the sand mines and crusher industries has defiled the river water ...

TEN years after a wave of toxic sludge killed 19 people, a mining giant has now been found liable for the massive dam collapse disaster. The new ruling, handed down by London’s High Court today, found ...