Sand shortage - update

I've mentioned the world's growing sand shortage before and thought I'd take a moment or two to update you with a few more articles.

• NPR - 7/21/17 - "World Faces Global Sand Shortage"
• Pulitzer Center - 7/28/16 - "The Global Sand Shortage"
• NY Times - 6/23/16 - "The World's Disappearing Sand"
• Independent - 12/6/17 - "Sand mafias and vanishing islands"
• South China Morning Post - 12/31/17 - "The world is running out of a resource, and it's not oil"
• Noccolls & Dimes - 4/23/18 - "Written in Sand"
• Wired - 3/26/15 - "The Deadly Global War for Sand"
• Dezeen - 10/11/17 - "Sand becomes 'increasingly scarce and expensive,' threatening glassmaking and construction"
• Dezeen - 7/18/17 - "Atelier NL calls for sand samples from all over the world to make region-specific glass"

Some folks are working on solutions, however, but I'll save that link for next week...

(Ooh, a teaser...)