Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bulldozers push sand ashore at Town Neck Beach in Sandwich bolstering the dunes dredged up from the Cape Cod Canal as part of a ...

Fisherwomen on the north coast of Java Island are pushing back against plans to dredge sea sand for export, saying they fear it will worsen coastal erosion and harm marine ecosystems. Under a 2023 ...

Around 6 billion tons of marine sand is being dug up each year in a growing practice that a U.N. agency said is unsustainable and can wipe out local marine life irreversibly. Sand is the most ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Dredging resumed this week at the Oceanside harbor and could continue for as long as two more weeks to get the expected 250,000 cubic yards of sand, enough to beef up beaches ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz Harbor is the only small craft harbor in the country with its own full-time dredge. This week, the craft was pulled out of the water for the first time since it was ...

A long-awaited dredge has finally arrived and is starting to remove some 70,000 cubic yards of sand that’s clogging the western part of San Elijo Lagoon, restricting tidal flow and causing fish ...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is placing equipment on the beach in Ponce Inlet for a dredging project. This will help replace sand lost during Hurricanes Ian and Nicole in ...