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Aurora Torres

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Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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Articles Featuring

  • The rising tide of sand mining: a growing threat to marine life, February 21, 2025
  • MSU scientist helps craft solutions in United Nations sand crisis report, April 27, 2022
  • Tracking Time Through Shifting Sands, July 29, 2021
  • Shifting The Sand Business To Greener Practices, May 28, 2021
  • Sand’s urban role demands key part on sustainability stage, May 21, 2021
  • Digging up solutions for a looming global sand crisis, May 21, 2021
  • New Scientist - World without sand..., February 20, 2018
  • Salon - The world is facing a global sand crisis, September 11, 2017
  • Smithsonian - The World is Running Out of Sand, September 11, 2017
  • LiveScience - The World Is Running Out of Sand, September 8, 2017
  • The sand trap: Demand outpaces caution – and knowledge, September 7, 2017

Authored Documents

  • ONE EARTH - Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity, February 21, 2025
  • CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies, April 4, 2024
  • ONE EARTH - Sustainability of the global sand system in the Anthropocene, May 21, 2021
  • SCIENCE -- A looming tragedy of the sand commons, September 5, 2017

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