Mining of coal around the world is being continued to meet the ever-growing energy
demand. Mining involves extensive clearing of ground cover, change in physiography …

Opencast coal mining generates a large amount of mine overburden spoils and creates
huge overburden dumps in and around the mining area. It is a big issue as most of the …

Re-vegetation of mine spoil enhances carbon storage in both above-ground plant biomass
and mine soil. The current study was conducted at the coalmine overburden dumps of Jharia …

Mining of Coal is one of the chief sources of power generation globally to meet the energy
demand. However, the mining operations and power production leads to the generation of …

Phytoremediation is currently being envisaged as an ecologically sustainable and
economical decontamination technique for polluted sites. Phytoremediation being a slow …

Mining activity causes a huge amount of land degradation by altering the land use pattern of
the area. It is extremely difficult to restore and reclaim this degraded land because of the …

Wastelands (WLs) are characterized by the habitats that have lost the power to exhibit
resilience in a way to revert back the process of degradation while conserving the biota and …

Meghalaya is a state of the north eastern region which is recognized as a treasure of many
valuable minerals. Mining operations were left to the local miners to take up coal mining as …

In the present era when several countries are facing dual challenges of energy insecurity
and environmental pollution, growing plants having bioenergy potential for reclamation of …

abstract Environmental pollution is a major problem with increasing human population and
correspondingly increasing industrial activities. Chemical industrial dyes can cause …