Sand Quarry Destroys Land

People are dredging an alarming amount of sand from the seafloor, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned today. An average of 6 billion tons of sand …

Billions of tons of sand are extracted annually, adding pressure on marine life and coastal communities. Startling findings from a new UN data platform reveal that the marine …

Sand mining has triggered land grabs in places like Singapore. And throughout Southeast Asia, sand smuggling is a dangerous black market. Dangerous sand mining gangs …

Why are mining interests focusing on estuarine and coastal lands for sand quarries? wrong type of sand. "Although desert sand is plentiful, its wind-tumbled particles are too …

In the paper, researchers from the Michigan State University's (MSU) Centre for Systems Integration and Sustainability and Belgium's Université catholique de Louvain …

For example, the gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) – a critically endangered crocodile found in Asian river systems – is increasingly threatened by sand mining, which destroys or …

Sand Land's mulch pile contaminated the groundwater, according to a 2018 investigation by the Suffolk County Health Department. The department found manganese …

But to house those people, industrial sand mining or aggregate extraction – where sand and gravel are removed from river beds, lakes, the oceans and beaches for use in …

Sand mining destroys habitats, dirties rivers and erodes beaches, many of which are already losing ground to rising sea levels. When miners dig out layers of sand, riverbanks become less stable. The pollution and acidity can kill fish and leave less water for people and …

— Some residents in Marion County are voicing strong opposition to a proposed sand quarry near the town of Sewanee, citing concerns over increased truck traffic, noise …