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

This post briefly examines how the geopolitics of sand is playing out in the South China Sea. (Cover Image: Voice of America)

Land reclamation is one of the key drivers of sand mining across the world. The human and environmental cost of this activity is enormous. Cover image credit: The Philippine Association of Marine Science

When Ms. Singha tweeted about land reclamation that can be gentle and sustainable - without pouring sand into water, we simply had to know more! Here is a short piece that she shared with us.