Sand Mafias Are Plundering the Earth | Scientific American
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
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Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
The UNEP-backed GRID-Geneva centre is keeping tabs on everything from forest fires to sand dredging.
New data suggest that the extraction of sand from marine environments — known as “sand mining” — is happening at an unsustainable rate across the world. However, experts say there are solutions to mitigate this activity’s damaging effects. Recently, the U.N. warned that the dredging industry is extracting about 6 billion tons of sand from […]
The six billion tons of sand extracted from oceans annually is unsustainable and poses a serious threat to marine life, UNEP says.
The United Nations Environment Program analysis came Tuesday as the result of data compiled through a new tool called Marine Sand Watch.