Surging demand for sand used in construction projects poses an existential threat to Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The seasonal expansion and contraction of ...

Mammoth Grove Mine was approved by Polk Commission on March 17 despite a previous denial by the planning commission and ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic consequences, a new study has found. The huge Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia, a UNESCO ...

CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

Southampton Town officials have launched an environmental review of their proposal to phase out sand mines near residential areas over a seven-year period. The legislation, introduced in late October, ...

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 ...

Chennai, INDIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called "sand mining mafia", ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON − Activists seeking a moratorium on sand and gravel mining operations in southeastern Massachusetts delivered a petition to ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Critics of a booming silica sand mining industry will ask lawmakers to hit the pause button Tuesday when the Minnesota Legislature holds its first-ever hearing on a subject that has so ...

Chennai, INDIA, Dec 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called "sand mining ...