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.

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 .

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

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 ...

Intense sand mining is putting the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia at risk of collapse with catastrophic consequences, a new study published in Nature Sustainability has found. Subscribe to ...

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 ...

Authorities in Uganda’s southwestern district of Rukungiri have suspended sand mining activities along River Rushaya, citing environmental degradation and the risk of collapse of a key bridge linking ...

Chandrapur: A violent clash between two groups over sand mining and boundary demarcation left one person dead and two injured ...

Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Monday accused the state government of actively undermining the safety of the Annaram barrage on Godavari river by allowing largescale sand mining ...

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 ...

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 ...