(Aperture X/Moment/Getty Images) All over the world, industrial sand mining is extracting river sediment much, much faster ...

River sand and gravel fuel global construction, but their extraction is reshaping rivers, ecosystems, and communities faster ...

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the ...

One summer morning, Le Thi Hong Mai's home collapsed into a river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where shoreline erosion caused by sand mining and hydropower dams threatens hundreds of thousands of people ...

Indonesia will resume exporting sand dredged from the sea, commonly used in reclamation projects, ending a 20-year ban. Environmental activists and marine experts have criticized the policy, saying ...

Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity. In the delicate balancing act between human development and ...

Environmental activism group Mother Nature Cambodia on July 14 posted a new video alleging that Cambodia has quietly resumed sand exports to Singapore after the trade was banned in 2017. The ...

GENEVA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a U.N. agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life irreversibly ...

YANGON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - From a boat on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar, Than Zaw Oo pointed to a brown stretch of water he said was once full of lush paddy fields. "This used to be my ...

Filipino farmers have demanded an immediate stop to black sand mining using heavy machinery in MacArthur, a municipal town in Leyte province of the Catholic-majority Philippines, fearing it will ...