How sand mining impacts ecosystem
A lucrative business, sand mining from rivers done illegally and unscientifically is found to affect riverine ecology.
River sand is preferred for construction because it requires less processing. (Source: P Jeganathan/Wikimedia Commons)
Mudflats erosion changes Gulf of Khambhat shoreline
Researchers find out that a total of about 28.66 sq km area of high tidal mudflats has got eroded within a span of just three-and-a-half years.
Erosion in high tidal mudflats. (Pic courtesy: ISW)
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