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

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

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

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 ...

The tool, which modifies the government's National Water Model, uses AI and real-time data from sensors to forecast water ...

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

To help fix this, Sullivan will be using a large grant from the DNR to help facilitate and pay for lake dredging. Local ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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