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[https://www.npr.org/2020/02/17/806729347/sand-mining-in-cambodia-and-dams-upstream-threaten-mekong-river by Michael Sullivan 17/2/20 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2020/02/17/806729347/sand-mining-in-cambodia-and-dams-upstream-threaten-mekong-river by Michael Sullivan 17/2/20 npr] | ||
MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: In the capital Phnom Penh, a construction boom is transforming the city. High rises are replacing the low-slung French colonial architecture, and sand from the Mekong sediment is used to make concrete that's key to that growth, says government mineral resources Director-General Yos Monirath. | MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: In the capital Phnom Penh, a construction boom is transforming the city. High rises are replacing the low-slung French colonial architecture, and sand from the Mekong sediment is used to make concrete that's key to that growth, says government mineral resources Director-General Yos Monirath. | ||
=====‘Gentleman’s Agreement’: Despite Mining Ban, Russia Scours Antarctica for Massive Fossil Fuel Deposits===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2022/05/gentlemans-agreement-despite-mining-ban-russia-scours-antarctica-for-massive-fossil-fuel-deposits/ by Tiara Walters 23/5/22 PBS] | |||
Despite the 1998 Antarctic mining ban — ratified by Russia and 28 other states — some of the so-called loot in the Kremlin’s crosshairs appears cached within large marine sedimentary basins off East Antarctica’s Indian Ocean sector. | |||
