Manasquan Inlet shoal dug away; here is how many Olympic pools they could fill with sand
In the end, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug enough sand out of Manasquan Inlet to fill 13½ Olympic-size swimming pools.
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Ocean trash is building up. This artist reveals what’s out there.
More than five trillion pieces of plastic already fill the seas, with some nine million tons added each year. Artist Barry Rosenthal builds these assemblages to illustrate the extent of marine ...
Science Daily21d
The rising tide of sand mining: A growing threat to marine life
Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity. In the delicate balancing act between human development ...
Phys.org22d
The rising tide of sand mining: A growing threat to marine life
Unlike critical minerals or deep-sea mining—both of which have attracted significant scrutiny—sand extraction in marine environments remains largely overlooked, despite sand and sediment ...