“So, look at these boats, it looks like giant vacuum cleaner. And that’s what it does, it’s basically sterilizing the bottom of the sea by extracting sand and crunching all the microorganisms that are ...

In the past 20 years, the Lagos State Government has lost huge revenue to sand dredging. Despite the creation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Development in 2007, the ...

Oceanside’s beaches will be wider this year and there should be fewer big black pipes snaking across the sand at the height of the tourist season, Army Corps of Engineers officials said. The annual ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to extend a permit of the annual sand dredging project in Oceanside. The routine operation to remove sand from the mouth of Oceanside Harbor and use it to ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Dredging resumed this week at the Oceanside harbor and could continue for as long as two more weeks to get the expected 250,000 cubic yards of sand, enough to beef up beaches ...

Heavy equipment will dominate a stretch of Carlsbad’s beach near the old Encina Power Plant for the next month. Crews are funneling thousands of cubic yards of sand per day onto the beach, not only to ...

Jupiter Beach Park is getting wider and the Jupiter Inlet is getting deeper. That 200-foot-long dredge boat in the inlet off DuBois Park is pulling up about 74,000 cubic yards of sand — about 4,100 ...

At the north end of Hueneme Beach, the coastline is perpetually receding. During high tide, waves bite chunks of sand from the base of a cliff-like berm that stands in some places more than 4 feet ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a U.N. agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life irreversibly. Sand ...