A treasure hunter uses a metal detector during a warm day at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Sediment at Santa ...

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

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What measures are they taking to control ...

Askoa Ibisate, a geographer specializing in fluvial geomorphology, has analyzed how the disappearance of the Olloki dam affects sediment transport. Ibisate concluded that the volume of pebbles ...

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

The early finish gives the contractor, Cashman Dredging of Massachusetts, enough time to start filling the excavated pit with an estimated 31,780 cubic yards of sediment from the first three ...

Kampung Batu Satu’s completed wave breaker project is now causing sediment deposits, which makes the waters shallower and harder to navigate. The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) said the ...

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 ...

With the Portland Harbor disposal pit completed, dredging at three waterfront sites will begin. What do you do with a big hole in the ground? You fill it, of course. The first phase of the ...

The 2023 breach of the Kakhovka dam drained a huge reservoir and exposed a vast area of toxic sediment, creating a debate ...