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50 billion tons: enough to build a wall 27 metres wide and 27 metres high around planet Earth. This is the volume of sand and gravel used each year, making it the second most used resource worldwide after water. Given our dependency on it, sand must be recognised as a strategic resource and its extraction and use needs to be rethought, finds a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 

GENEVA: A U.N. report on Tuesday called for urgent action to avert a sand crisis, including a ban on beach extraction as demand surges to 50 billion...

Calls for international standard on extraction and better monitoring of most-exploited resource after water

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. report on Tuesday called for urgent action to avert a "sand crisis," including a ban on beach extraction as de...

UNEP calls for sustainable extraction of sand to avert ecological disasters-

Yes, the world is really running out of sand.

GENEVA: A U.N. report on Tuesday called for urgent action to avert a sand crisis, including a ban on beach extraction as demand surges to 50 billion...

Researchers from Queensland and Geneva have used samples from one of Vale’s largest iron ore sites to repurpose mineral waste while alleviating the global sand crisis.

Researchers propose the idea of separating and repurposing sand-like materials from mine waste before they are added to the garbage stream.

After water, sand is the most exploited natural resource on the planet. However, its extraction from seas, rivers, beaches and quarries has an impact on