The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...

Officials urge the public to avoid water contact, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers as stormwater ...

What do you do with a big hole in the ground? You fill it, of course. The first phase of the long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project — construction of a 9-acre confined aquatic ...

Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

After yearslong litigation from residents and activists, and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand ...

The study looks at newly discovered fossilized grooves and footprints discovered in fine-grained sediment at White Sands ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

There are wastewater treatment plants in every major city designed to filter out some of the chemicals and drugs that end up ...

While both the Monongahela River and Allegheny Rivers both can freeze in the winter, the Allegheny River will be the river ...

Scout Motors plans to build cleaner burning electric vehicles in what boosters say is a win for the e. But the plant’s ...