Sand mining ‘mafias’ destroying environment, livelihoods: UN
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Sand mining is eroding the world’s river deltas and coastlines, damaging the environment and hurting livelihoods from Cambodia to Colombia, as government regulation fails to keep pace with rising demand, the United Nations warned this week. Global demand for sand and gravel, used extensively in construction, is about 50 billion tonnes or an […]