In this guest post, Luis Fernando Ramadon, a Federal Police Specialist from Brazil, shares his research on the estimated value of illegal sand extraction vis-a-vis other types of transnational crime.

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.

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

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.

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