H L Langeh langehh17@gmail.com River Sand or Natural sand is a readily available construction material but its resource is ...

Panaji: The Bombay high court on Monday issued a notice to the captain of ports in a fourth contempt petition concerning illegal sand mining. The Goa .

Temples, roads and bridges worth more than Tk50 crore are under threat of collapse due to alleged illegal sand mining along the banks of the ...

In Southeast Asia, the famed Mekong River is under threat from upstream dams built by China. Those dams are reducing the flow of water and sediment, but China's downstream neighbors share the blame.

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 ...

Ara: With a firm resolve to curb illegal sand mining and transportation in the inaccessible riverine stretches along the Sone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grain by grain, truckload by truckload, Laos’ section of the Mekong river is being dredged of sand to make cement — a commodity being devoured by a Chinese-led building boom in the capital. But the ...

CHENNAI/THOOTHUKUDI: Like his many a battle waged on the field for the welfare of the downtrodden and marginalised sections, R Nallakannu also fought a legal ba ...

The perennial water supply challenges in Tamale and its environs have partly been attributed to the heavy accumulation of sand within the Nawuni sub-catchment of the White Volta River Basin ...

Since this situation affected the Gal Oya Bridge, in 2010, the then Ampara District Secretary Sunil Kannagara, along with the Irrigation Department, the Road Development Authority, the Central ...