Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet ...

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the ...

Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ability of its ...

Sinking faster than seas: A Nature study shows many major deltas are subsiding at rates exceeding global sea level rise, driven by human activities like damming, sand mining, and groundwater ...

Each time Sangam Mahato passes the excavators scooping up sand from the Aurahi River, it brings back painful memories of her brother, Om Prakash. Also known as ‘Dilip’, her brother had been protesting ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic consequences, a new study has found. The huge Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia, a UNESCO ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the ...

YANGON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - From a boat on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar, Than Zaw Oo pointed to a brown stretch of water he said was once full of lush paddy fields. "This used to be my ...

Two men arrested for illegal sand mining in Ponnai riverbed, with investigations ongoing into contractors involved.

Vadodara: Two officials of the mines and minerals department were beaten up when they tried to stop illegal sand mining in ...

Some 60 million people rely on Southeast Asia's Mekong River for their sustenance. But the Mekong is under threat. While China is building dams that sharply reduce the water flow and sediment ...

July 19 (Reuters) - Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ...