Mining Turns India's Heat-Shield Hills to Dust

Mining turns India’s heat-shield hills to dust

Residents have long protested that the hills are being torn apart by unchecked mining. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Mining Turns India's Heat-shield Hills To Dust

This photograph taken on May 19, 2026, shows the Aravalli mountain range in the backdrop at Ramlyawas village in Rajasthan´s Neem ka Thana town. — AFP  NEEM KA THANA: Dizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India’s ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New Delhi relies on for protection from furnace-hot desert winds. Residents have long protested that the hills of the 700-kilometre (435-mile) rang…