While she slept, Yindingie transformed her body into a long, slender island of crystalline sand, the largest such ... Today paradise goes by the name of Fraser Island, renamed by newcomers after ...

Island dwellers have been protesting against rampant illegal sand mining in the island and have claimed that the island which was spread across 80 acres had shrunk to just 40 acres due to sand mining.

More than 40 people went on trial in Vietnam today over illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta, state media said, as concern mounts over the environmental impact of overexploitation. A former ...