Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platformwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down12
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minus-squareChewy@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoEvery day is a school day; I had no idea.
minus-squarenawa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months 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