Humans are artificially expanding cities' coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts. Developers have added over 2,350 square kilometers of land (900 ...

The Lagos State government has announced a crackdown on illegal sand dredging and unapproved land reclamation activities, warning that such operations are threatening the state’s delicate ...

“Sun, sand and sea.” Those are the three ingredients for tourism in the Maldives, Mohamed Shaiz’s father told him. For more than a decade, Shaiz’s family owned a successful local hotel in ...

A land reclamation project in Jakarta Bay. Image by Sapariah Saturi/Mongabay Indonesia. An estimated 2.7 million Indonesians are employed in marine fisheries, most of them small-scale fishers.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Board of Land and Natural Resources is blocking an effort to use sand from an ancient Leeward Oahu beach to replenish the Waikiki shoreline. The board took a stand ...