Making mountains out of sand dunes
Sand mining is one of the biggest global issues you don't know much about
If I were to ask you to name resources the Middle East has in abundance, I’d guess that oil and sand would be among the most common answers. And while not every country in the region can boast the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, or Iraq (the three biggest oil producers in the region), sand …
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