Sand underpins lives and livelhoods across the world. ‘Beneath the sands’ demonstrates why there is an urgent need to manage this resource better.
Cover: A sand harvesting site in Rakwaro village, Kenya. Photograph: Sharon Atieno

In this guest blog, Sheikh Rokon, Founder and Secretary-General of Riverine People, a Dhaka based civil society organization shares his commentary on Bangladesh's switch from polluting clay-fired bricks to concrete-based bricks that are presented as 'eco-friendly' bricks within the country.

In July 2021, Sweden's biggest cement factory was denied permission to continue mining limestone. This blog examines why a focus on low-carbon cement alone is not enough.

Did you know that some of the ...ahem…incentives being offered to officials for sand range from the payment of university fees for their children, trips to foreign locations and even sex?

This post shares details of a key webinar on the use of recycled aggregates from Construction & Demolition Waste in India.

In this guest post, Otshabile Bahetoleng, an Environmental Assessment Practitioner, shares the impacts of river sand mining in Botswana.