Cambodia’s banned sand trade with Singapore appears to be back – Mongabay

Unauthorized sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor,Cambodia 2012 (by Wikirictor CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia).

“Most countries don’t grow 10 km or 20 km [6-12 mi] every single decade, but Singapore does,” said William Jamieson, a postdoctoral research associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, who works on the global sand crisis. Between 1965 and 2025, the country’s total land area increased by 28%…