$100 Billion Chinese-Made City Near Singapore To Be Built
The scale of the projects is dizzying. Country Garden’s Forest City, on four artificial islands, will house 700,000 people on an area four times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Samoa: Beach sand mining is aggravating coastal erosion in Upolu
In the Samoan island of Upolu, a villager is reporting seeing myriads of trucks loaded with sand mined from local beaches.
Sand extraction destroys the Crimean beaches
According to scientists, sand mining is a direct threat to all the beaches of the peninsula, as in the south-west and on the east coast.
Shrinking Shores: Florida sand shortage leaves beaches in lurch
Beaches are built one truckload at a time as the main ingredient in the State’s beach renourishemnt program – offshore sand – gets harder to find.
Sand’s end
Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?
An Assessment of the Impact of Sand Mining: Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania
In mainland Tanzania, in comparison to Zanzibar, sand mining is done mainly along the coast and in river beds. This does a great deal of damage because it destabilizes the river banks and may collapse any bridges along them. On the contrary, mining in Zanzibar is generally done on the coastal beaches or in the hinterland areas that are richer in available sand.
Indonesia: land right activists killed for protesting illegal sand mining
Legal and illegal mining has become a serious concern over the past five years in Indonesia. Such exploitation of natural resources has contributed to a number of human rights violations in Indonesia, such as murder, torture, attacks, illegal detention, land grabbing and forced eviction.
The Last Wave, Andaman Islands
Environmentalist, freelance journalist, photographer and author Pankaj Sekhsaria has spent 20 years studying and fighting for the ecology of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. His first fiction novel ‘Last Wave’ about these islands, published in 2014, is getting released in Goa along with his photo exhibition.
Sand Storm: $750 Million Worth of The Material is Unaccounted For in Cambodia
Nearly 50 civil society organizations called for the Cambodian government to join some other Southeast Asian nations and ban or severely restrict exports of sand to Singapore after it was revealed that nearly $750 million worth of the building material has disappeared from the country.