Opencast coal mining has a series of consequences on land resources and places
enormous pressure on the ecological environment. Strip**, excavation, transportation and …

Land degradation is one of the most important factors responsible for the alarming situation
of food security, human health, and socioeconomic development in the country. Currently …

Fly ash generates as the result of coal combustion in thermoelectric power stations whereas
ore mining activities produce mine waste-rock and tailings worldwide. High concentrations …

Anthropogenic land use changes in the vicinity of forest catchments are explicitly
responsible for the deforestation and degradation of tropical forest thereby altering the …

Tree-based ecosystems are critical to climate change mitigation. The study analysed carbon
(C) stock patterns and examined the importance of environmental variables in predicting …

The increasing demand for minerals pressurizing the mining authorities to extract low-grade
ore results in more mining waste and degradation of the environment. The main aim of …

The revegetation on mine spoiled lands has potential to improve the status of reclaimed
mine-soil quality. However, to date the temporal dynamics of labile and stable fractions of …

For millennium, mining sector is a source not only of mineral extraction for industrialization,
economic expansion, and urban sprawling, but also of socio-environmental concern. It …

Surface mining is recognized as one of the essential anthropogenic activities which
drastically disturbs the ecosystem. To offset the impacts of surface mining, revegetation is …

Anthropogenic activities substantially altered the ecosystem's functioning and most of them
are directly or indirectly responsible for biodiversity loss, land degradation, and climate …