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 ...

Detroit — Sabin Ahmed cast his fishing line into the sparkling water at Detroit's Riverside Park hoping to catch a channel catfish, his favorite because of their tender filets. It didn't matter how ...

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 ...

All over the Houston area, as Harvey's floodwaters receded, they left behind sludge – a mix of grit and debris picked up from streets and sewers and eroded bayou banks. Though that sediment sometimes ...

MADISONVILLE, La. — What’s coming out of the tap near Madisonville is going up on Facebook. Video after video after video showing brown water flowing through home faucets show what neighbors are ...

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 ...

Al Qudra Lake, a reservoir in Dubai, sits in the middle of the desert. But in September, a stretch of sand near the lake will become a nearly instant garden. A pilot project will test a new process ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The mud is coming out. Well, a small portion of it anyway. Eagle Creek Renewable Energy will begin dredging impoundment sludge from a Kalamazoo River side channel next month; an ...

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 ...

A family in Gardena, Calif., said Monday they were concerned about the safety of what looked and smelled like “black sludge and sediment” coming out of their water faucet. Diane Morita took video of ...

Officials: Port of Cleveland vital to economy Total value of activity up $1.1B since '08, latest predictions show The Fortungratcht being loaded May 21, 2014, in the Port of Cleveland. The Dutch ship ...