Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend—12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per year ...

(WALA) - Several counties in the northwest Florida are making sand and/or sandbags available to residents as a tropical system continues to develop and possible head toward the northeast Gulf of ...

Anyone stepping barefoot across a hot beach knows sand stores heat. A University of Dayton researcher is working on extracting and storing heat from that sand and other sand-like materials, which ...