"Sand dredging"

#13105746

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105748

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105757

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105758

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105761

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105762

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105763

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105764

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105765

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105766

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105767

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#13105768

17 December 2025

Sand miners dig and dredge sand and rocks on the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano in Srumbung sub-district, Magelang, Central Java, on December 17, 2025. The mining location is in a disaster-prone area, which endangers their safety and damages the environment included in the Mount Merapi national park area. This raises concerns about disasters that threaten the villages below if there is a cold lava flow or hot clouds in the event of an eruption because there is no longer any vegetation that acts as a natural barrier. However, economic pressures encourage workers to continue these activities.

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#11728717

1 November 2024

Sand dredging occurs in the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on November 1, 2024. The Karnaphuli River, the lifeline of the port city Chittagong, gradually chokes due to indiscriminate dumping of household and industrial wastes, unchecked environmental pollution, and unabated encroachment. Sand dredging intensifies in recent years, exacerbating the river's degradation and threatening local ecosystems.

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#11353378

23 June 2024

Workers are loading bags of oil-stained sand onto a wheel loader at East Coast Park beach in Singapore, on June 23, 2024. Singapore authorities are continuing cleanup activities after a Netherlands-flagged dredger, Vox Maxima, hit a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel, Maine Honour, on June 14, 2024.

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#11353376

23 June 2024

Workers are scooping up oil-stained sand at East Coast Park beach in Singapore, on June 23, 2024. Singapore authorities are continuing cleanup activities after a Netherlands-flagged dredger, Vox Maxima, hit a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel, Maine Honour, on June 14, 2024.

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#11353377

23 June 2024

Workers are scooping up oil-stained sand at East Coast Park beach in Singapore, on June 23, 2024. Singapore authorities are continuing cleanup activities after a Netherlands-flagged dredger, Vox Maxima, hit a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel, Maine Honour, on June 14, 2024.

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