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Inside the high-tech effort to save the world s dwindling sand reserves

A new UNEP-led project is using satellites and artificial intelligence to chart sand dredging.

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Gov t to increase sand mining as construction industry booms | Antigua Observer Newspaper

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Totally unsustainable sand mining harms marine environments, new data suggest

New data suggest that the extraction of sand from marine environments known as “sand mining” is happening at an unsustainable rate across the world. However, experts say there are solutions to mitigate this activity’s damaging effects. Recently, the U.N. warned that the dredging industry is extracting about 6 billion tons of sand from […]

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Sand Dredging Is Unsustainable and Wiping Out Marine Life, UN Says

The six billion tons of sand extracted from oceans annually is unsustainable and poses a serious threat to marine life, UNEP says.

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Tonnes of ocean sediment extracted annually, reports UN

AFP – Some six billion tonnes of sand and other sediment is extracted from the world’s seas and oceans every year, the United Nation (UN) said on Tuesday, warning of the devastating toll on biodiversity and coastal communities. Launching the first ever global data platform on sediment extraction in marine environments, the United Nations Environment […]

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