China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

Dear EarthTalk: What is “sand mining” and why is it bad for the environment? – O.H., via email Answer: Sand mining, extracting sand from the earth, is the second most widespread human activity in ...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these dunes can move over ...

California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, wind and rain, ground down to one of the most basic commodities on Earth: ...

The Donald Project, a JV between Energy Fuels (UUUU) and Astron Corporation, is considered one of the World's best near-term sources of rare earth minerals, which Energy Fuels intends to process into ...

Sand mining is the second most widespread human activity in marine environments after fishing. In fact, sand is second only to water as a natural resource used by humans. Currently, around 40 billion ...