Men use picks to break rocks and get sand in a sand mine on the outskirts of Fond Parisien, Haiti March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab ...

Sand mining has erased at least two dozen Indonesian islands since 2005. ... snapping pictures of sand mafias at work. ... At the mine, four men stride toward us.

Vietnam is a prime example of a little-known global threat: the mining of river sand to build the world’s booming cities. In An Giang Province, Vietnam, a half-mile stretch of riverfront along ...

All around the world, people are fighting and dying over sand. The natural resource is a crucial component of concrete, and it is coveted by developing countries like Morocco, Singapore, and, most ...

Mining tends to evoke images of greedy corporations rolling in wealth, but many miners live a harsher reality. In India, some miners risk drowning to make ends meet, diving to hazardous depths to ...