In the past, there was a lot of sand by the Han River, and people swam in the water. “The Han River 1968,” a book by Kim Won at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, ...

Julian Leyland receives funding from UKRI. Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while ...

For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the late 1800s, William King thought about how useful that sand would be in making plaster and cement ...

By Carolyn Cowan 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 ...

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 the Van ...

Sand River Falls & the Pinguisibi Trail is a popular attraction in Lake Superior Provincial Park. Here's everything you need to know! So, our late summer road trip REALLY ended up as a tour of Ontario ...