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

Microplastics are everywhere, even in our brains but experts explain how we can limit our exposure to these insidious ...

Officials urge the public to avoid water contact, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers as stormwater runoff may be contaminated with bacteria and chemicals, and contain wildfire ...

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 ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

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 ...

The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were ...

The new facility will hold nearly 2 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment as part of a federally-funded cleanup effort ...

Between ice breaking tug boats, massive cranes and large barges, there's a lot happening off Jones Island in Lake Michigan this winter.

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

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