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.
Benin: Erosion-inducing coastal sand mining to be outlawed
Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused in part by coastal sand mining, carting away of free beach sand for commercial uses, the national government has begun a campaign to save its coastal sand by digging up sand inland, instead. But communities near these newly-created sand collection spots are fighting back.
Mining Of Coastal Sand: A Critical Environmental And Economic Problem For Morocco
In Morocco, the extraction of beach and dune sand for use in the construction industry is destroying significant portions of the nation’s natural heritage.
Slideshow: The Global Impacts Of Beach Sand Mining
Beach sand: so common, so complex, so perfect for sand castles and now a precious and vanishing resource.
Cambodia Under Sandmen’s Spell
Singapore is struggling to find the sand it needs for its gigantic land reclamation and construction projects.
Claims Mining is Destroying Famous Sand Dunes
Kurnell Peninsula is in danger of becoming an island.
Liberia: Coastal Erosion Displaces Hundreds
Coastal erosion has wiped out dozens of homes and left nearly 200 inhabitants homeless in Buchanan. Most of the erosion is caused by unregulated sand mining.
Would it still be Miami Beach with Foreign Sand?
Miami Beach leaders are eyeing sand from foreign sources such as the Bahamas, as the domestic supply runs dry.