QINGZHOU, SHANDONG, CHINA, March 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As global infrastructure investment accelerates and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ability of ...

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 ...

A new study using multidecade satellite imagery and face-to-face human interviews tracked the environmental and societal ...

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 ...

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 River Sand Protectors Network highlighted the ...

Satellite image of Ratu river and sand mining activities in the surrounding area. “Earlier, we only had to dig about 20 metres to install a hand pump, but now we have to look for water as deep as 100 ...

The bench placed the matter before the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to pass necessary orders for assigning the matter to an appropriate bench.