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Time is running out for sand
In Lagos Lagoon in Nigeria, labourers dig sand from the sea floor by hand. Credit: Robin Hammond/Panos
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Nature 571, 29-31 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02042-4
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