We draw out some of the relationships between sand and cities, thinking about concrete, glass and paints; discuss some of the implications of this vast extraction; unpick the value of storytelling and ...

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production ...

It's like watching a natural disaster in slow motion, he said. “It’s a city surrounded by an ocean of sand that’s advancing every minute,” El Wely, the president of the local Association ...

That's when Marco and Dabees started to create this ongoing plan for using Sand Dollar Island, considered a spit, the lagoon and the surrounding ... Development Council. City Council approved ...