In Jamaica, the destruction comes just 15 months after Hurricane Beryl impacted more than 50,000 farmers and 11,000 fishers, and caused $4.73 billion Jamaican dollars (about $29 million) in losses, ...
In the past two decades, sand mining has tripled, with demand reaching an estimated 50 billion tonnes a year in 2019, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ...