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How our demand for sand is destroying our world

Sand makes up most of the physical world around us. But thanks to climate change and our insatiable demand for sand, we’re now quickly running out of it. Toronto-based journalist Nehal El-Hadi talks to Nahlah Ayed about our complicated relationship to sand, and how that relationship may be leading us toward an environmental crisis. ....

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