'Totally unsustainable' sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest
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 […]
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