An environmental engineer who mapped microplastic pollution in three of Pennsylvania’s watersheds explains what it means for ...

As public investment transforms the shoreline, officials say contaminated river bottom material remains a major barrier to ...

Reservoirs around the world are losing storage capacity at an average rate of 7.3% per decade—disproportionately affecting ...

Private investors eyeing the purchase of Portland’s Ross Island have for the first time unveiled detailed plans to use the island’s lagoon as a disposal site for contaminated Superfund sediment, ...

January 26, 2024 — In the Benediction for his 1968 autobiographical book, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, American author, essayist and environmental advocate Edward Abbey wrote, “May ...

According to the department, the affected area is a semi-enclosed bay with limited water circulation, and fine sediment and ...

Clay minerals are a major constituent of the earth's surface and are mainly found in the sediments of lakes, rivers and oceans. The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny ...

Scientists have produced the first detailed estimates of how much sediment is transported onto the shores of coral reef islands, and how that might enable them to withstand the future threats posed by ...