A man on a snowboard carves his way down Monte Kaolino's steep, 400-foot sand hill on May 11, 2025. Monte Kaolino is an ...

A proposed 25-acre mine drew 200 people to a public meeting Thursday night. Opponents of the project are concerned about ...

MANILA, Philippines— The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Calapan has formally opposed dredging and sand mining operations in the city’s rivers and coastal barangays, citing environmental and social ...

The Town of Southampton approved plans to close sand mines near residential areas, giving operators up to seven years to wind down operations. The law, approved Tuesday in a 3-1-1 vote ...

Maintaining that Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) are critical in sea sand mining, Grinson George, Director of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, emphasised the need for a ...

Despite its critical role in modern society and urban development, the environmental and social effects of sand mining remain largely hidden from public scrutiny. The UN’s environment programme ...

Lapôtre: A landscape's topography, wind, and water all dictate where sand accumulates. Sand mining disturbs that natural balance, and it can have ripple effects. One example of this is in ...

There is renewed optimism for river sand mining sector in 2025 following a tumultuous period in the year gone by, marked as it was by illegal mining and irregular excavation that significantly ...

Southampton Town has unveiled a new plan to end sand mining in residential areas, sparking fierce debate among environmentalists and tradespeople over a lucrative industry that plays a key ...

Representative image Terming illegal rampant sand mining as "serious", the Supreme Court on Wednesday said such activities needed to be effectively dealt with and asked five states including Tamil ...

SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) stressed on Friday that there have been no active black sand mining activities in this province in the last several months. Cmdr.

A team of officials from the Department of Mining and Geology carried out a raid at an illegal sand mining site in Mangaluru taluk and seized sand and 23 boats used for mining, estimated to be ...