Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platformwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down13
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minus-squareChewylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoThe problem is that desert sand is pretty much useless for concrete since it is too round. In some places entire beaches disappear overnight. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jul/01/riddle-of-the-sands-the-truth-behind-stolen-beaches-and-dredged-islands
minus-squareC4d@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoEvery day is a school day; I had no idea.
minus-squarenawa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWell let’s put the desert sand into the oceans then
The problem is that desert sand is pretty much useless for concrete since it is too round.
In some places entire beaches disappear overnight.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jul/01/riddle-of-the-sands-the-truth-behind-stolen-beaches-and-dredged-islands
Every day is a school day; I had no idea.
Well let’s put the desert sand into the oceans then