South Africa’s Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has dismissed most of the appeals against the approval in 2019 of vastly expanded beach mining operations on the West Coast north of the Olifants River.
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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.
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Persistent illegal beach sand mining around Cancun, Quintana Roo State, Yucatan Peninsula
Illegal beach sand mining is a serious problem gravely affecting the coastal environment of the very touristic Quintana Roo State.
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Cambodia is experiencing a building boom that is transforming its capital, Phnom Penh. Sitting at the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap rivers, the city’s low-slung French colonial architecture is being replaced with high-rise apartment buildings, malls and luxury car dealerships. Sand from the Mekong’s sediment is key to that construction growth.
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Both the Myanmar government and the company whose ships do the dredging in Chaungzon, deny the dredging is causing exacerbated erosion, as local farmers and politicians worry.
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Bainbridge asks state agencies to follow up on permit for sand mining on Triangle Property
As many as five sand mines operated along the shoreline of the Monterey bay, CA, throughout the last century, scraping…
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Even though they are inanimate objects, sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other. A team from the University of Cambridge has found that as they move, sand dunes interact with and repel their downstream neighbors.
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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.
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