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As crews continue clearing roadways from mud and debris related to Tuesday's mudslide in the Montecito area, they have faced some community criticism for transporting that mud and debris t 
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Dredging firms look ahead to more business, here and across the big pond. Along the way, Mother Nature and good business planning will both help.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We apparently like to dig up sediments.
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A quick overview of the central thesis of a forthcoming book on the future health of beaches.
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SACRAMENTO -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture is joining with government partners, NGOs and private industry to celebrate the inaugural California Soil
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Our first-ever statewide celebration of soils across our agricultural lands.
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The scale of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea is leading to "serious questions" on its intentions, a top US official says.
China is building artificial land by pumping sand on to live coral reefs - some of them submerged - and paving over them with concrete. China has now created over 4sq/km (1.5 sq miles) of artificial landmass. China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers over the course of months.
Tags: borders, political, conflict, water, China, East Asia.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
In addition to the original BBC article, here is another article from the Telegraph with some aerial imagery showing the extent of this geo-engineering project. This has plenty of geopolitical implications and the United States government is on record saying that it is "concerned."
Danielle Lip's curator insight,
April 6, 2015 9:16 PM
Pumping in sand to cover coral reef and create more land is a very inventive way to make new territory, using concrete and placing bulldozers and other machinery is helping China gain more land and gain more access in the South China Sea yet this who pumping is making people question and causing places such as the Philippines to file complaints saying they will not be associated with the whole plan that China has. Why is China exactly pumping sand and spreading concrete over the live coral reefs? Does China know they are killing live animals and plants underneath the sea? While looking into the matter I found that China believed the whole act of reclaiming land to be "entirely within China's sovereignty and are totally justifiable". Now people all over the world are focused on land and power, not about other social matters. This land pumping is not only causing conflict but it is creating more opportunity to better work and living conditions. 
Bob Beaven's curator insight,
April 16, 2015 2:41 PM
China is a large and powerful nation that is not afraid of flexing military muscle to its smaller neighbors. The developments of China building artificial land to strengthen its claim in the region shows how determined the country is to have its claims honored. It also shows that China will stop at nothing to have regions were resources could be to aid in the countries economic growth. However, China is causing a great deal of controversy through its actions. Also, China's neighbors are becoming increasingly frustrated with the large nation, yet they are all much smaller nations that really can't prevent the Chinese from doing what they want, especially with China declaring it won't listen to what the UN has to say. China is a country that is not afraid of strongman politics to get what it wants. |
