Australia’s 1,400-mile Great Barrier Reef—a wonder of the natural world—has had a tough go of it in the last decade. Pollution, rising ocean temperatures and recent bleaching events have ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Dane County crews removed more sludge and sediment from the Yahara River Chain this year than ever before, county officials said Wednesday. The work was part of the county's ongoing ...

In 10 years or so, the fragrant banks of the Gowanus Canal may smell less like supercharged sewage, while the waters might lose their pus-addled-Ninja-Turtle hue. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

TOKYO – Beneath the seawater in Japan’s Beppu Bay lie layers of seemingly unremarkable sediment and sludge that tell the story of how humans have fundamentally altered the world around them. The site ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — A Canadian-owned hydroelectric dam operator says it will increase the amount of Morrow Lake impoundment sludge being dredged from the Kalamazoo River by doing two removal projects in a ...