Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ...

sand mining has become a multi-million-dollar industry, driven by a construction boom fuelled by Chinese investment. Along the Mekong river, my team has documented sites of severe bank erosion ...

Ex-Cyclone Alfred has caused beach erosion so extreme, it's left escarpments up to six-metres high in some dunes, including ...

Richard Bangert examines a 1981 environmental assessment by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers while considering Alameda's ...

However, new hi-tech surveillance could improve the enforcement of sand mining regulations and improve resilience for these riverbed communities. A site of bank erosion on the Mekong River at ...

Beaches in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales are scarred by dramatic sand cliffs, but there is good news.

Renourishment efforts on Breach Inlet were taking place early Tuesday morning, as crews work to replace sand lost to ...

"There's a lot of active sand management on the Gold Coast. There'll probably be some remediation works to speed things up, too. "We could have more storms and more erosion. What we hope is that ...

Shorelines in tourism hotspots such as the Gold Coast and Byron Bay have been denuded by giant waves caused by the cyclone, ...