Last-Chance Beaches: Morocco
You’d think that a desert country like Morocco would have enough sand for everyone. But at least a few parties feel the need to steal sand from Morocco’s Atlantic beaches, by literally bulldozing dunes, trucking the sand away to make cement, and leaving behind ugly lunar landscapes.
Sand Mining Database
Coastal Care has an extensive list of Sand Mining resources.
Documenting The Global Impacts Of Beach Sand Mining
For centuries, beach sand has been mined for use as aggregate in concrete, for heavy minerals, and for construction fill.
Why are Tunisia’s beaches disappearing and what does it mean for the country? – Reuters
Rising sea levels are causing Tunisia’s beaches to gradually disappear. This is making life hard for the country’s tourism and fishing industries.
The Maghreb – made up of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya – is more affected by coastal erosion than any region outside South Asia, the World Bank found in a 2021 study. Among these countries, Tunisia has had the highest erosion rates in the last three decades, averaging almost 70cm a year, it found…
Pollution
Pollution Introduction to Pollution More on Pollution . . . Ecosystem Destruction Plastic Pollution Pollution Plastic gets to the oceans through over 1,000 rivers May 11, 2021 Coastal Care Excerpts: The problem with plastic waste just got more complicated—and so did the effort to stanch its flow into the world’s oceans. Read Full Article, National Geographic (05-11-2021) […]
Global warming and illegal land reclamation add to severe floods in China
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Growing youth activism for environmental protection in Africa
The mining sector in Africa is facing radical change as youth activists take action against the environmental degradation caused by mining industries.
New approach to sustainable building takes shape in Boston
A new building about to take shape in Boston’s Roxbury area could, its designers hope, herald a new way of building residential structures in cities.
World Consumes 100 Billion Tons of Materials Every Year, Report Finds
The amount of material consumed by humanity has passed 100 billion tons every year, a report has revealed, but the proportion being recycled is falling.