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Green Buildings
Benjamin Huang appointed head of sustainability at Fonda Global
Huang joins with a brief to find green building solutions for facilities management projects in Singapore.
This year, Bihar extended a seasonal ban on mining sand from its rivers. But illegal sand mining continues every day across the eastern Indian state.
Residents of the Mekong Delta are seeing houses tumble into rivers and livelihoods disappear due to erosion driven by sand mining.
Policy & Finance
Unaccounted deaths plague sand mining operations in India
According to a study, 418 people lost their lives and 438 people were injured in India from December 2020 to March 2022, in cases related to sand mining.
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