In the past 20 years, the Lagos State Government has lost huge revenue to sand dredging. Despite the creation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Development in 2007, the ...

“So, look at these boats, it looks like giant vacuum cleaner. And that’s what it does, it’s basically sterilizing the bottom of the sea by extracting sand and crunching all the microorganisms that are ...

Something is devouring one of Myanmar's longest rivers, the Salween. Villagers in the country's southeast depend on it for growing their rice paddy. But the entire ecosystem is threatened to collapse ...

Before millions of cubic yards of sand are removed from the Hereford Inlet, we need a clear, evidence-based understanding of ...

Tides, high surf and the ocean currents push sand into the harbor entrance, which was built for Camp Pendleton at the outset ...

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. Sand is the most ...

The Sri Lankan Government is to investigate allegations that sand dredging for the country’s Port City project will damage the environment and livelihoods of fishermen. A report on the issue is to be ...

By Jack Motz For the past week or so, heavy machinery has dotted the west shoreline of Lake Montauk as several infrastructure ...

In Simaogang, a small fleet of sand dredgers work from sunrise to sunset, shipping river sand to construction sites around Yunnan. Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the ...

Special Issue 65: Proceedings of the 12th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS 2013, Volume 1 (2013), pp. 1015-1020 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc. Beach ...

No visitor to the Vaitarna creek in Thane district will believe there is a standing Bombay HC order banning mechanised sand dredging. In violation of court orders sand is being illegally dredged with ...