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he said over the top stories from al-jazeera saudi arabia says it's intercepted a ballistic missile targeting its capital riyadh yemen's who the rebels say they fired the weapon and were aiming for the official residence of king solomon is the third such attack since november his intense tie up. this is the moment a who he fired ballistic missile was apparently shot down by saudi forces yemen base hoofy say they were targeting the royal palace which is west of the capital a large group of saudi leaders were meeting there at the time including king some money and crown prince mohammed bin some money and i think there were these wanted to make a statement that they're still up and running and that they're still fighting this fight the fact that you know in recent days and weeks they have been allegation that there were these a weakened by the. they would not be able to shoot further into territory but they proved otherwise. the missile attack happened just hours

before saudi arabia was jus to announce its annual budget as well as members of the world family senior ministers were also expected to attend a social media post from a government agency confirmed the missile had been intercepted but that no casualties were reported the saudi led coalition which has been conducting air strikes against the fighters in yemen for nearly three years retaliated with more strikes in the southern part of the capital sanaa speaking on the group's t.v. channel who the leader of the molecule who said the missile attacks marks one thousand days since the start of the war in yemen he today can't tool missile was launched. palace in the heart of city of saudi arabia this is our answer to them and the whole world the more crimes you perpetrate the more to renig . you will meet nothing but more missiles. this isn't the first missile attack on saudi arabia in the. amber the international airport in riyadh was

narrowly missed in a strike a saudi government has accused regional rival iran of smuggling missiles and technology to the movies and allegation teheran the ninety's. the war in yemen has created what the u.n. describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the conflict at least ten thousand civilians have been killed and millions are on the brink of famine and as the fighting continues many fear the situation on the ground could get worse if your style of al-jazeera iran has condemned the u.s. for accusing it of supplying missiles to who's the rebels on a geisha was made by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley tehran has dismissed the accusation as irresponsible and provocative meanwhile the u.n. is accusing the saudi led coalition of killing at least one hundred thirty six yemeni civilians in ten days they died between december the sixth and the sixteenth one attack involved seven air strikes on the prison and senate last week which killed forty five detainees. a procedural error is forcing the u.s.

house of representatives to vote again on a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill it's a step back for president trump was pushing for his first major legislative when the bill passed the republican controlled house but was later rejected in the senate because it broke up a house rules. angry protesters are back on the streets of honduras calling for a rerun of last month's presidential election incumbent on orlando and unders has declared himself the winner despite international observers discrediting the vote the opposition will formally challenge the result five people have died during violent protest in the semi autonomous kurdish region in northern iraq eighty others were wounded in the town of ranya. demonstrations have been held across iraq he kurdistan thousands rallied against unpaid public sector salaries in silliman nia they set fire to the offices of political parties. campaigning for catalonia

snap a parliamentary election is drawing to a close catalans had to the polls on thursday for a vote that could decide if their region breaks away from spain at least forty three people have died after tropical storm kai tak battered the philippines rescuers are recovering more bodies in areas devastated by landslides and flooding . those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after sound was i will see you very soon. we bought the house about c. years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of

sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world at the time it has been employed we don't all get up at two great overdue i live in la i'm at seven am. washed away by rising sea levels. being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand units become just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we loose. i mean we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will win this and worse. for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is

feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance played any other role in our daily lives. standard is what i like to call an unsung hero. it's because there are just endless examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but it's

a strategic mended such as. you. think about your computer. chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even helps the supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like a the a we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it. and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last one

hundred fifty years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes two hundred tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around three thousand tons. each kilometer of highway devours thirty thousand tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about twelve million tonnes.

production of sand exceeds billion tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much as fifteen billion you don't know because no one. is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world was that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have

a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the positives of surface and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to four hundred thousand cubic

metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere from twenty five million to two hundred million dollars. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans have every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is a sand. fantasy is too grandiose. projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and. making land has been doing with the with the official reconstructed island.

landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. after the year two thousand with the price of real estate soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. with the world cost over twelve billion dollars and devoured more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand. with the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it

is almost as resort official archipelago of three hundred islands designed as a map of the world absorbed fourteen billion dollars and three times as much sand as the palm. the world. a place beyond imagination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. to kill the corporation managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural sand resources and you think we'll find of course dubai is on the edge of that there's a they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert. does it

say and is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular you know it's rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have

a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. thirty five hundred australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in twenty years accounting for a five billion dollar jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so what you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such as construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. in thirty years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the sixty three islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore is sort of lying on the import. for its very

existence and the land mass is literally increased twenty percent over the last forty is and that's largely been reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. singapore is already transformed one hundred thirty square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another one hundred square kilometers by twenty thirty. having devoured all its own reserves its for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which unload daily and it's important to prove that the city state has found an

alternative source but where does the saying come from. coming here. you come here very every day every week. this is what is driving the show so don't come put it. in. your individual. little. north korean television company you are going to have welcome. thanks to local traffic and networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries.

but the other come. but in the same system. we saw the thing is it just it was invisible is a great state but it just says that this is. the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that he usually have a political is a massive of ours were concerned it's just a is building. leader in the region particularly with the last global sun that but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.

as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever they think they will be at the. sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. ninety two percent in the nation's fiscal challenges come from tension of the city because many activities when this coral reef we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of

fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the first of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sail. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of natural growth this is and human excavation. literally disappear. one of the most stunning impacts of the sand trade was the disappearance

of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we lose that sand that we lose. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. twenty five indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity in dangerous local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious.

morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange four legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand. the men on the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. that.

i wrote back i wrote back i have i don't want to give you. are you know that i know could have been an addendum to the mag or not how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to you had no love no my love my double got nothing. by that i mean i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do with their day but didn't come but you're mad you're not going out your head not them have them come we don't know what i'm going to get we're great a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that forty to forty five percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches . loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive

make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. and home lavey enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to

corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sand mafia controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each pot to fit the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than eight thousand drugs

inside scattered across the coasts and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. just two years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them

out of these houses here with their on the the front were row number two and i the fact that these houses won't be here and five here. we thought the house about see years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last two years the scart mint is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally between seventy five and

ninety percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. by this date social collectives are all keep buying space is among the people amended tend to all kids tax working on the edge of the mill. in the first episode of. some of the adults who have chosen colleges even into the realm of self building in space. at this time on just zero.

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he said i'll be in doha with your top stories from al-jazeera saudi arabia says it's intercepted a ballistic missile targeting its capital riyadh yemen to see rebels say they fired the weapon and were aiming for the official residence of king solomon is the third such attack since november a levy today. was launched targeting palace in the heart of city of saudi arabia this is our answer to them and the whole world the more crimes you'll perpetrate the board to rent a car you will meet nothing but more missiles iran has condemned the u.s. for accusing it of supplying missiles to who's the rebels the allegation was made by the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley tehran has dismissed the claim as irresponsible and provocative the u.n. meanwhile says the saudi led coalition has killed at least one hundred thirty six yemeni civilians in ten days they died between december the sixth and the sixteenth

one attack involved seven air strikes on a person and son our last week which killed forty five detainees. a procedural error is forcing the u.s. house of representatives to vote again on a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill it's a step back for president trump who is pushing for his first major legislative when the bill passed the republican controlled house but was later rejected by senate officials who said it broke that body's rules angry protesters are back on the streets of honduras calling for a rerun of last month's presidential election the incumbent won orlando hernandez has declared himself the winner despite international observers discrediting the vote the opposition will formally challenge the result five people have died during anti austerity protests in the semi autonomous kurdish region of iraq eighty others wounded in the town of runyan demonstrations have also been held in the kurdish city of cinema nia thousands rallied against unpaid public sector salaries they set

fire to the offices of political parties now the prime minister hide out of body is warning he'll take action if any citizens are attacked in the region at least forty three people have been killed after tropical storm tak battered the philippines rescuers are recovering more bodies in areas devastated by landslides and flooding those are your headlines back now to send waters. the world that is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures

a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost. as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes in summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede to level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we've built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the sim symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. what's causing it it's us.

we are drawn to coastlines today three quarters of the largest cities in the world population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world's. increasing density by twenty twenty five three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. if we think. of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to figure out how to make projects. and that's what brings tourists. in florida nine out of ten beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of third of the planet's tourists head for the beach beaches feed the

hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear is out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts. to the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. in their. dredge sand from the ocean floor and force it onto the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only to. it's the symptom. they've got to put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but it's just another hole. those big machines that when

they go take this and they're in killing everything within that sand as ground up put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. beach replenishment is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing to see you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures

. but sand cannot be so easily tamed. the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up harbors and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. all by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on i'll be what do we do we stop the sand from supplying our neighbors beach. the tragedy is that people are just not aware they are not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have

a responsibility because we don't want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility and because of just not dan paying attention. in order to avert further catastrophe it's important to understand the source of ninety percent of the world see sand often a long way from the beaches. for the most part it starts in a rock somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline.

it takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and it's a journey full of pitfalls. in america we have been building one dam every day since the dec relation of independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams blocked the rivers of the united states in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by two thousand and twenty not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least eight hundred forty five thousand dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dam.

one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostile to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trap river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week results about fifty percent of a sandwich or nurse the world's beaches will never reach the sea. the coastline like many other environments it's like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldn't have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream there's no more sand so somehow we have to figure out

how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things we're doing as a civilization. on the. ground up to green beaches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you add the rising level. you get an ecological time bomb. the sea rise it's just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. but it's not going to stop there it's going to take out in all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as

well it's going. keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. in the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. to the. sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling its developers. but with sea levels rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. sand is a very ambitious commodity in the maldives because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every second every day every year is such a false and it is eat the fish or you don't deny.

the mold deaves our road at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick in a demonic in the home and nobody did it come up with body how to undo what the law gave one nun a difficult adama to go lie number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make a nickname out of whatever the highgate at the lodge i didn't have him up in an only kind of money but unless the united made any of them and don't live in. several hundred islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another better irony of the sand wars new.

construction require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand in we have written history that goes but. we can't just die. far from the mel deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate

record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis thirty percent of the homes constructed since one thousand nine hundred six sit empty entire airports have been built without seeing a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if ninety percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of routes that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest going to lose the fat and. how the sand wars

even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy in the developing of the former stage on climate change on the reform of the optical traill common policy on the common fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water without the aerial for you find that you need a problem to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. but don't let water because we know there's a major problem is that right now europe. and we have had the debates in that we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science. we're not having the debates. it's very very crucial that. petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they use most which is

construction. can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. or other materials capable of replacing concrete. from the straw that's burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and they're earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with ninety five percent recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials

which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps thirty five different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle

. what if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped all of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump what nature has done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset then you've killed two birds with one. i think everybody realized the glass is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's

a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are everywhere they're usually collected and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into fine pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of characteristics it says i'm contaminating regular beach sand looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so to say and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. as much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high

maybe. the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budget a must see the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing . on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. but today pressure men are angry. a multinational with a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter.

sagal so this is a. lot with the global. companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. on the does rules get to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impacts. on polynomial greenness well you know so they get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a lot of a. lot of them see if they move it. from a deal specifically. duck just for me and all the well wishes said chris is i'm also do you know even move. he.

is going to do for some something. done. in. a sous st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with. perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars.

once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soil it ocean be more and this will have a very seed is in ireland. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations

of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with. cern deserves a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. way of living. they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been if to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for.

the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see said with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the senate wars for the good of a song. al i was warmed up recently in the deep south i do see reporters thirty degrees in

south carolina for yesterday i think that's an exaggeration we're up into the high teens low twenty's and this hump of warmth is going to answer florida for the most most part the us and counters not properly into winter the real cold tucked up here in northern plains states prairies and back further west it's subzero by day has been much colder this but it is still subzero and is a bit of a difference if you comfort assess obviously nineteen states if they show up as blue you'll get snow on the mountains otherwise the snow is confined to the ground of the snow terrier briefly bit of lake effect and the warmth this time he has to be accompanied by rain so rain in atlanta nineteen degrees dallas back into the sunshine still ninety degrees and it's remarkably seventeen in denver but the snow not far away comes to the cascades more especially the rockies heading slowly science words and that of course will knock the temperature back a cold to get down to denver maxim's zero a day later as a huge swing but it's not uncommon as you probably well aware for colorado further

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