About six billion tons of sand is being extracted yearly from the floor of oceans, resulting in irreparable damage to benthic life, per a global data platform on sand as well as other kinds of sediment extraction in the marine environment.
The brand new data platform titled the Marine Sand Watch has been built by GRID-Geneva, a Centre for Analytics in the UN Environment Programme (abbreviated the UNEP).
The platform will help track and also monitor dredging activities of silt, gravel, sand, clay,...