Private investors eyeing the purchase of Portland’s Ross Island have for the first time unveiled detailed plans to use the ...

A research team has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled method that can map river depth across long reach with ...

Sediment cores reveal that the 2012 wildfire in Africa's Mountains of the Moon was the first fire recorded there in 12,000 ...

Fed by the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna basin, these rivers carry an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes of sediment annually, making ...

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 ...

The Cowlitz River is pictured at Gearhart Gardens Boat Ramp in Longview Monday, Dec. 15. Water levels are high following days of heavy rain. (Longview Daily News) Leaders around Cowlitz County said ...

Nearly 30 years ago, the Portland District became the first and still only U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district in the continental United States to contend with an active volcano. The 1980 eruption ...

A new opinion piece suggests that deep-sea mining would generate damaging sediment plumes and noise pollution that would negatively affect the midwater column, a critical ocean ecosystem that begins ...