A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud ...

The U.S. Army Corps plans a massive dredging project at Port Everglades, threatening 10 million corals with permanent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Liz writes about the ocean and its protection. Coral reefs provide habitat to some of Earth's most diverse ecosystems - from sea ...

On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from Taiwan’s Matsu Islands. Amid public concern in Taiwan over thousands of illegal Chinese sand ...

Hydraulic dredging in a canal at Tortosie Island in Satellite Beach. Scenes of the dredging project on the Grand Canal near Pineda Causeway which is part of the Save Our Indian Lagoon Plan. They are ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto RicoSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport began Wednesday amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a ...

In Simaogang, a small fleet of sand dredgers work from sunrise to sunset, shipping river sand to construction sites around Yunnan. Sand is about as unglamorous a resource possible. But without sand, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started dredging on Monday at Honolulu Harbor, its third operation this year. The current dredging operation is expected to be completed by ...

Marine conservation and fisheries activists in Indonesia are pushing for exports of sea sand to be scrapped, saying the activity harms the environment and community livelihoods. Indonesia imposed a ...

A worker from American Marine moves the dark brown soil from the harbor basin to spread it along the shoreline as part of the dredging at Wailoa Small Boat Harbor in Hilo Bay on Tuesday. So far this ...

Dredging about 20,000 cu. yds. of material out of Twilight Lake in Ocean County, NJ, was one of the projects that Wickberg Marine Contracting worked on during the summer of 2014. This was a fairly ...