(Reuters) – Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ability of ...

Sand Mining on the banks of the Sita River near Mabukala bridge in Brahmavar, India Rudolph.A.furtado - Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Sand isn't just for beaches. The tiny grains show up in many ...

A DEPUTY minority leader pressed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to clarify its position on the controversial issue of black sand mining, calling it “disastrous” to the ...

CHULA VISTACHULA VISTA — The board of the Sweetwater Authority is interested in sand mining and material dredging opportunities in and around the South Bay water agency’s two reservoirs. The agency, ...

It is extraordinary how few people know anything about sand mining. Up to 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel are mined each year to meet soaring demand from construction and land reclamation – ...

Sand — vital for concrete, glass, and land reclamation — is the planet’s second-most exploited resource after water. Many ...

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening land loss to ...

THE alarm raised by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) that the rate of dredging and mining sands in Lagos is a pointer to disaster waiting to happen, is a call to action by various agencies ...

STOCKHOLM, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening land ...

It's a resource used in global construction and mined from rivers and coasts across the world. Now new research has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability ...

There are many ways to kill a river. With Southeast Asia's storied Mekong, China's upriver damming is taking a heavy toll, but downstream neighbors share the blame. The No. 1 threat: sand mining. In ...