Figure 1: The Mississippi River drainage basin and the lower Mississippi River. Figure 2: Sediment transport data from Thebes, Illinois, and Tarbert Landing, Mississippi. Figure 3: Model results for ...

For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the late 1800s, William King thought about how useful that sand would be in making plaster and cement ...

Since the early 20th century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River annually to keep the channel open for boats, ships and barges. Each year, the Corps removes about ...

Julian Leyland receives funding from UKRI. Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while ...

Sand is the most mined resource worldwide, yet not many are aware of the global environmental crisis stemming from over-extraction. River sand is the main ingredient of concrete — a core resource in ...

Vietnam is a prime example of a little-known global threat: the mining of river sand to build the world’s booming cities. In An Giang Province, Vietnam, a half-mile stretch of riverfront along the Van ...

Trichy: Trichy district police are on the lookout for a man who was mining river sand from Cauvery riverbed illegally in the Kaduvetti area near Kattuputhur in Trichy on Friday. Kattuputhur police ...

Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s ...