If the Houston County (Minnesota) Board votes to ban fracking tonight, it won’t because the board members are basing their decision on the best available science. Banning sand mining in Houston County ...

Julian Leyland receives funding from UKRI. Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while ...

Surging demand for sand used in construction projects poses an existential threat to Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The seasonal expansion and contraction of ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic consequences, a new study published in Nature Sustainability has found. Subscribe to ...

ST. PAUL - Sand mined in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin opens up cracks between rocks so oil and gas can be removed from the ground in places such as in western North Dakota. But mining ...

Sand is the most mined resource worldwide, yet not many are aware of the global environmental crisis stemming from over-extraction. River sand is the main ingredient of concrete — a core resource in ...

New data from the newly launched platform Marine Sand Watch suggest that the dredging industry is extracting about 6 billion tons of sand from the marine environment annually. Experts say the ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – For seven decades, hundreds of acres of gorgeous costal dune land right by Lake Michigan operated as a massive private sand mining operation that was closed to the public since the ...