Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

In recent decades, concrete has become essential in construction, but with increasing demand for materials, the world faces a shortage of sand, particularly for concrete production. While beaches and ...

Worldwide, coastal areas are squeezed between a rising sea level on one end and human structures on the other. The distance between a sandy coastline and the first human structures averages less than ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and soils adversely affects 500 million people around the ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There have been numerous headlines in the past five years centered on a confusing subject: The world seems to be running out of sand. How could this be ...

Researchers in the US have developed thermoelectric thin films using nanoengineering that are twice as efficient at cooling ...